How the theater helps us to survive, and to challenge, politics
Theater
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
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.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
“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.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
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.
Posted inArts & Culture, Faith in Focus
Just a Little More Faith: When Sam Rockwell Played Judas Iscariot
“I wasn’t raised religious and I don’t know anything about religion,” he said in 2004.