‘This Is My Life’ February 12, 2019 Essays & Reviews A play that depicts Lynda Blackmon Lowery’s heroism as a teenager seeks to inspire a new generation.
Tom Bair Delivers the Spoken Word December 11, 2018 News Hearing the Gospel of Mark becomes more fascinating because Bair is not reading, but reciting from memory.
Joan of Arc’s Family Drama November 6, 2018 Essays & Reviews Playwright Joan Anderson: “When I become a mother I understood what it’s like … to have a young girl who is strange but gifted and a mother who loves her no matter what.”
Comic Tribute to a 14th-century Mystic July 24, 2018 Essays & Reviews, Features The Saintliness of Margery Kempe is now being revived Off-Broadway, 59 years after it last graced a New York stage.
An Hour of the Millennium November 10, 2017 Features A theatrical production of Babette’s Feast takes a metaphorical approach.
Rowan Williams, Playwright September 14, 2017 Clips, News The Shakespeare Project of Chicago will stage Shakeshafte, a play by the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury.
Degrees of Separation May 17, 2017 Essays & Reviews, Features In his latest play, Jason Odell Williams confronts the blight of mass shootings.
Discomfiting Theater March 13, 2017 Essays & Reviews Playwright Bruce Graham writes in direct language about racism.
A Legendary Truce December 4, 2015 Essays & Reviews Actor Alex Gwyther’s ‘Our Friends, the Enemy,’ a one-man play, depicts the Christmas Truce during World War I.
Love and Death September 11, 2015 News Two priests create an Off-Off-Broadway musical on finding love late in life.
