Shadow Show

by Peter Wood

Artemisia: Light and Shadow, a one-act, one-person play at the Flea Theater in Tribeca, portrays the life of the seventeenth-century Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Continue Reading »

25 May 2018

C. S. Lewis’s Love Story

by Ramona Tausz

A new rendition of Shadowlands, the drama based on the story of C. S. Lewis and Joy Davidman, is now playing in Manhattan.  Continue Reading »

5 Dec 2017

The Transfiguration of Death

by Sebastian White O.P.

In Death Comes for the War Poets, Joseph Pearce poses anew the questions of life, death, and humanity that haunted the poets of the Great War. Continue Reading »

20 Jun 2017

Sing Unto the Lord

by Michael Linton

In opera, it’s good to be the tenor. You get the high notes, you get the girl, and you get the big fees. And this has been a half century rich in remarkable tenors. Perhaps there has been no voice so purely beautiful as Luciano Pavarotti’s (or as profitable), and probably no singer so broadly . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2000

Donne Undone

by Carol Iannone

However much traditional standards are leveled in our late democratic society, American theater will persist in challenging putatively oppressive values and the figures who enforce them.  So I concluded after seeing Wit, the play by Margaret Edson that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 and is . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2000