Category Archives: Politics

ASSASSINATION THEATER: The Most Important and Exciting Theater You Will See

The first great work of theater, Oedipus Rex, is a whodunit. Ever since, solving mysteries seems part and parcel of what audiences expect of the theatrical experience. I was a high school student beginning a lifelong study of theater when the shots rang out in Dallas. Being sent home from school due to an assassination […]

August 18, 2015 – 12:09 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Current Events, from Paul, History, Media, Newspapers, Politics, radio, Television, Theater, Videos, World Affairs | Comments Off on ASSASSINATION THEATER: The Most Important and Exciting Theater You Will See

John Caird’s TOSCA: Art and Politics Don’t Mix

John Caird’s magnificent production of Puccini’s Tosca is revolutionary. The director, who has already secured himself a position in theater history with his genre-defining eight-and-one-half hour two-part stage adaptation of Dickens’ novel Nicholas Nickelby for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and his direction of the world premiere production of Les Miserables, also for the Royal Shakespeare […]

March 11, 2015 – 4:22 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Current Events, from Paul, History, Music, Opera, Politics, Theater, Uncategorized | Comments Off on John Caird’s TOSCA: Art and Politics Don’t Mix

Remy Bumppo’s An Inspector Calls: Excellent Acting, Provocative Script

The stated mission of Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, in its 17th year, is to “engage audiences with the emotional and ethical complexities of society through the provocative power of great theatrical language.” J. B. Priestley’s 1945 mystery An Inspector Calls is probably more provocative now than when it premiered in Josef Stalin’s 1945 Russia, but for […]

December 9, 2013 – 1:04 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in History, Mini-Review, Politics, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theater | Comments Off on Remy Bumppo’s An Inspector Calls: Excellent Acting, Provocative Script

BILLY GRAHAM ON 9/11

President and Mrs. Bush, I want to say a personal word on behalf of many people. Thank you, Mr. President, for calling this Day of Prayer and Remembrance. We needed it at this time. We come together today to affirm our conviction that God cares for us, whatever our ethnic, religious or political background may […]

September 11, 2012 – 4:17 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Art, Current Events, History, Politics, Quotations, Talks, Television, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology, World Affairs | Comments Off on BILLY GRAHAM ON 9/11

Voting in Two Kingdoms

It’s the time of the year when Christians ponder how to “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” The gospel writer Mark adds “And they marveled at him.” Marveled, indeed. Because Jesus provides no details, where, the adage has it, the devil resides.  Nothing about voting, since […]

August 31, 2012 – 6:46 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Current Events, from Paul, History, Politics, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology | Comments Off on Voting in Two Kingdoms