‘This Is My Life’
A play that depicts Lynda Blackmon Lowery’s heroism as a teenager seeks to inspire a new generation.
Tom Bair Delivers the Spoken Word
Hearing the Gospel of Mark becomes more fascinating because Bair is not reading, but reciting from memory.
Joan of Arc’s Family Drama
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
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
A theatrical production of Babette’s Feast takes a metaphorical approach.
Rowan Williams, Playwright
The Shakespeare Project of Chicago will stage Shakeshafte, a play by the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury.
Degrees of Separation
In his latest play, Jason Odell Williams confronts the blight of mass shootings.
Discomfiting Theater
Playwright Bruce Graham writes in direct language about racism.
A Legendary Truce
Actor Alex Gwyther’s ‘Our Friends, the Enemy,’ a one-man play, depicts the Christmas Truce during World War I.
