The story of “La Virgen del Tepeyac” is about the birth of a people.
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The true story of whistleblower Reality Winner’s interrogation comes to life in ‘Is This a Room’
The play is a verbatim reenactment of the F.B.I.’s hour-long interrogation of the Georgia intelligence contractor who was arrested for leaking classified documents.
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Playwright Will Arbery on the restless Catholics of ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’
Arbery has written a play based on many years of quietly watching and listening to his fellow Catholics and conservatives.
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What did the Jesuits have to do with the invention of the horror film?
Jesuit plays aimed to create sensual religious displays to shake audiences into spiritual reckoning and conversion.
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How Playwrights Horizons is shining a spotlight on God off Broadway
The theater has been a place where New York theatergoers can get an above-average dose of plays on spiritual themes.
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‘Porgy and Bess’ and the power of representation
Written in the 1930s, George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” has always been controversial.
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Review: ‘Slave Play’ grapples with a poisonous legacy
In his sensational new play, Jeremy O. Harris posits that racism may poison our most intimate relationships.
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‘Novenas for a Lost Hospital’: An elegy for a place of sickness and grace
A new Off-Broadway play dives into the history of St. Vincent’s in Greenwich Village.
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The first Filipino-American musical examines faith and spiritual healing
Jose Solís talks to Jessica Hagedorn and composer Fabián Obispo, the creators behind the new musical, “Felix Starro,” the very first Filipino-American musical produced in the United States.
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A new play honors Our Lady of Guadalupe and the missing women of Juarez
A new broadway play creates a docu-mythologia around the disappearance and murders of more than 700 women in Ciudad Juárez since 1993.