Theater Archive

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    RetroPost: Could You Play Gay?

    David Dunham asks a question many Christian actors should be figuring out before they are forced to.

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    The Good, the Bad, and the “Wicked”

    Richard Clark confronts the truth of human nature, with a little help from a popular Broadway musical.

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    Slings and Arrows, Smells and Bells

    Over the past couple of years, with the aid of Netflix, I've been working my way through the Canadian television series Slings and Arrows. The show focuses on the on-stage and off-stage lives of the New Burbage Festival, a sort of fictionalized version of the Stratford Festival in Western Ontario. In real life and on the show, the Festival's main fare is Shakespeare, and each season of Slings of Arrows centers around a production of a Shakespearean tragedy: Hamlet (Season 1), Macbeth (Season 2), and King Lear (Season 3).

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  • A Raisin in the Sun: What Happens to a Dream Deferred?

    In her debut post, Carissa Smith finds a meditation on grace alongside P. Diddy.

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  • Could You Play Gay?

    I work a part-time job in a non-Christian environment. I am the only believer in my immediate work station, and I can think of only a handful or so of professing believers in my whole building. This can sometimes give me a unique voice in certain conversations, and because of that I get asked lots of questions. Some of the question are of a contentious nature, while other questions are purely out of curiosity. Recently my partner asked me one of the latter.

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