Waiting for Othello: Denzel Washington Returns to Broadway

By Jim McDermott | March 24, 2025

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.

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Reaching for Himself: Bob Dylan and Bill Richardson, S.J.

By Jim McDermott | February 24, 2025

The music icon found one of his savviest interpreters in a Jesuit priest

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David Lynch’s Sacramentality of the Strange

By Jim McDermott | January 23, 2025

The late filmmaker and artist took us into dark waters that prompted startling moments of clarity and connection

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Songwriter Sarah Hart’s Christmas Imagination

By Jim McDermott | December 19, 2024

A new album delights and comforts listeners with fresh interpretations of holiday stories and songs.

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