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.
Still-Amazing Grace January 1, 2015 Essays & Reviews, Features Director Christopher Smith’s 17-year odyssey to set John Newton’s life to music.
