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The great message of ‘Our Town’: Nostalgia and regret come with age. So do grace and compassion.
Valerie Schultz
January 03, 2024
Good theater draws us into its few hours of seeming reality, but it is most effective when it speaks to our lived reality.
Arts & Culture
Theater
Three new shows break the mold of the jukebox musical—for better and for worse
Rob Weinert-Kendt
December 14, 2023
Three new Off-Broadway shows don’t just show us what draws musicians to their chosen medium; they make us hear it, with often bracing effect.
Arts & Culture
Theater
Stephen Sondheim’s final musical is a satisfying cap to an extraordinary career
Rob Weinert-Kendt
November 10, 2023
Sondheim has left the building, and he lives on only in interpretation and iteration, no less than Shakespeare or Mozart.
Politics & Society
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Pro-life playwrights exist. The Dramatists Guild just doesn’t seem to think so.
John J. Conley, S.J.
October 17, 2023
I was saddened but not surprised by the pro-abortion position of the dramatists guild.
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Review: August Wilson, a playwright of multitudes
Rob Weinert-Kendt
October 12, 2023
In 'August Wilson: A Life,' an excellent new biography by Patti Hartigan, we read of the winding path that led Wilson to his ascendance, then delves into the tumults and triumphs of his two decades at the heights of achievement.
Arts & Culture
Theater
Take me to church (or to Broadway): ‘Purlie Victorious’ and the catharsis of Black theater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
October 10, 2023
Can I get an amen?
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