George Drance, S.J., blogs on his revival of Calderon's "Life is a Dream."

How the theater helps us to survive, and to challenge, politics

Jonson set his play in Jacobean London—in Southwark and Blackfriars—in real time.

That is, if the promise of the New Testament is to be true that we might transcend our thorniest divisions.

Ms. Houdyshell presents women as complex persons with a charm that gets everyone’s attention.

There are radiant truths within these Catholic documents. And then, it seems, the darker shroud of Rome is thrown down and ruins it all.