The ‘Hamlet’-inspired play made the playwright Tom Stoppard an overnight sensation.
Theater
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Stephen Sondheim: a great artist whose work blossoms in simple settings
A good Sondheim show has the sinewy strength, both musically and dramatically, to thrive in the barest of renderings.
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Why are we so fascinated with the lives of the English queens?
If the rich are different from you and me, how much more different, then, are royalty?
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“Life is a Dream” – A Jesuit director’s journal on his revival of “Spain’s Hamlet”
George Drance, S.J., blogs on his revival of Calderon’s “Life is a Dream.”
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The Theater as a Church
On this week’s podcast Rob Weinert-Kendt chats to Matt Malone, S.J., and Tim Reidy about the best shows he’s seen in New York City recently, as well a list of exciting plays coming up in the future. Highlights include “Dear Evan Hansen” and “The Present,” as well as a movie: “La La Land.” Rob Weinert-Kendt […]
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Jesuit Spirituality in Theater
In this week’s podcast, George Drance, S.J., chats to Matt Malone, S.J., and Kerry Weber about his approach to the theater as a Jesuit actor and director. George Drance also talks about his next play, “Calderon’s Two Dreams,” which opens at La MaMa in New York in February 2017.
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How the theater helps us to survive, and to challenge, politics
How the theater helps us to survive, and to challenge, politics
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Like Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson will forever live in Shakespeare’s shadow.
Jonson set his play in Jacobean London—in Southwark and Blackfriars—in real time.
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“The Secret Life of the American Musical” is as entertaining as it sounds.
Viertel tells many backstage stories about how the directors and composers managed to avoid a disaster, sometimes only a few hours ahead of opening night.
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These plays remind us that #BlackLivesMatter is more than a hashtag.
That is, if the promise of the New Testament is to be true that we might transcend our thorniest divisions.