One of Pope Francis’ pivotal legacies is his revival of the Catholic Church’s practice of synodality. It is also one of the least understood and most contested innovations of his papacy. The very word sounds odd and it’s certainly not as appealing or well known as catchphrases such as “Who am I to judge?” or…
Read MoreWhen 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 MoreLanguage is a contradiction: At once home and foreign, a unifier and a divider, a liberator and an oppressor. This is the landscape that groundbreaking French filmmaker Nurith Aviv paints in her compelling 2004 documentary, “Misafa Lesafa,” “From Language to Language.” The film was screened at the Center for Jewish History in New York on…
Read MoreThis 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.
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