But was the civil rights leader Brutus or Caesar?
Theater
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Finding the Jesuit spirit of theater in Chekhov’s ‘Three Sisters’
A computer scientist returns to the stage
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Does a Catholic play belong at The Stonewall Inn?
If we want to heal the division between the church and the gay community, we have to meet them, humbly, where they are.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
How American Theater is wrestling with the Trump era
Three plays invite us to look back on the decade that launched Trump as a time of churning ambivalence and upheaval.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Sam Shepard: America’s show-us-who-we-really-are prophet
While Shepard’s plays would absorb different rhythms and influences, their essence and voice were unmistakably his—our—own.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Even Oscar Isaac can’t save the Public Theater’s “Hamlet”
In a bewildering new staging at The Public Theater, Oscar Isaac is giving a rich, riveting lead turn as the dubious Danish prince.
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Saint or not, Dorothy Day belongs on the stage of American theater.
If the Greeks had Antigone, Americans have Dorothy Day.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘Will’ explores the genesis of genius, and Shakespeare’s Catholic roots
The story of Shakespeare is eternally appealing, because we want to know what confluence of circumstances, or divine blessing, could produce such a towering figure.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Disability without sentimentality: a stage actor’s journey
Well crafted stories about the “disabled experience” are still new, and too few-and-far between.