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Rob Weinert-Kendt
That is, if the promise of the New Testament is to be true that we might transcend our thorniest divisions.
AN IRISH CATHOLIC THANKSGIVING. Sarah Steele, Arian Moayed and Jayne Houdyshell in "The Humans" (Photo: Joan Marcus).
Arts & CultureTheater
Michael V. Tueth
Ms. Houdyshell presents women as complex persons with a charm that gets everyone’s attention.
(photo courtesy of Seven Days Vermont/CharlieMcAteer)
Theater
Joe Hoover, S.J.
There are radiant truths within these Catholic documents. And then, it seems, the darker shroud of Rome is thrown down and ruins it all.
A STAR IS REBORN. Brandon Victor Dixon and Audra McDonald in “Shuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed” (photo: Julieta Cervantes).
Theater
Michael V. Tueth
'Shuffle Along' was the first musical to feature an all-black cast.
EMOTIONAL SEESAW. Gillian Anderson as Blanche DuBois and Ben Foster as Stanley Kowalski.
Theater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
It is hard to imagine two more different writers or plays, but these two new stagings offer instructive contrasts.
Saoirse Ronan, center, in "The Crucible"
Theater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
In two new productions intimate transgressions have world-shattering consequences