Posts by Jim McDermott
Uncle Bob
When I was working on my story last month about Denzel Washington’s work while a student at Fordham and now on Broadway in Othello, I kept running across the name of a theater professor: Robert Stone. He had been one of Washington’s acting teachers and the two performed together in Fordham’s production of Othello. Stone,…
Read MoreWaiting for Othello: Denzel Washington Returns to Broadway
This is the latest example of the city’s never-ending surge of inequity — ticket prices that favor the super-rich and the ultra-connected while the can-do shows and actors who are the beating heart of Broadway are displaced for the theatrical equivalent of a Marvel cinematic summer tentpole: celebrity-stuffed, and emotionless.
Read MoreReaching for Himself: Bob Dylan and Bill Richardson, S.J.
The music icon found one of his savviest interpreters in a Jesuit priest
Read MoreDavid Lynch’s Sacramentality of the Strange
The late filmmaker and artist took us into dark waters that prompted startling moments of clarity and connection
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