Talk About the Passion: A Resurrection at Oberammergau
Postponed by the pandemic, the latest iteration of Germany’s most famous Passion Play has returned with spectacle and spirit intact, minus some of its nastier legacies.
All Stories About religion
Offscript: Benjamin Benne’s Questions of Faith
This week we talk to the playwright of ‘Alma’ and ‘In His Hands’ about intimacy, religion, poetic realism, and Mario Kart.
Sam Hunter’s ‘Case’ for Hope, Faith, and Rebirth
His new play at the Signature Theatre is not a theological argument but another of his searching efforts to find meaning in contemporary American life.
Faith to Faith Confrontation
A new cycle of plays about religious belief prompts L.A.’s Cornerstone Theater Company to rethink some definitions: of community, of tolerance, of Cornerstone itself.
The Power and the Glory
Times are changing at the world’s most famous—and infamous—passion play. Plus: Reflections of and on Obergammerau by Robert Wilson and Sarah Ruhl.
