Category Archives: Talks

FINE ARTS BUILDING IN AMERICAN THEATRE HISTORY

The City of Chicago proclaimed Friday, October 13, as “Fine Arts Building Day” in recognition of its 125th anniversary year. The Fine Arts Building also played a significant role in the history of the American theater by hosting the landmark Chicago Little Theatre. When the Fine Arts Building opened in 1885 as a Studebaker automobile […]

October 6, 2023 – 12:21 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Acting, Art, Books, Dance, from Paul, History, Men and Women, Music, Poetry, Politics, Quotations, Talks, Theater, Uncategorized, World Affairs | Comments Off on FINE ARTS BUILDING IN AMERICAN THEATRE HISTORY

THE ABBEY THEATRE’S TWO PINTS: On-Site Brilliance

If you were to guess the location of the Abbey Theatre’s first ever on-site theater production, the answer should be a “no-brainer”: A Pub. Of course. Even the dead,  but still-great, American dramaturgical pub-bard Eugene O’Neill could have guessed that. For the past year or so the world-famous theatre company has been taking their new […]

February 25, 2019 – 4:16 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Acting, Current Events, from Paul, History, Talks, Theater | Comments Off on THE ABBEY THEATRE’S TWO PINTS: On-Site Brilliance

A NOTE FROM SISTER VASSA

  To my great surprise and delight, I received a note from my favorite podcaster, Sister Dr. Vassa Larin, host of the wildly popular video series Coffee with Sister Vassa. Sr. Dr. Vassa is a Russian Orthodox ryassofor nun, author of many scholarly articles and a monograph on Byzantine liturgy and theology, and outspoken public […]

September 28, 2014 – 1:37 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Blog Groups, Books, from Paul, Media, Movies, Quotations, Talks, Television, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theater, Theology | Comments Off on A NOTE FROM SISTER VASSA

“C.S. Lewis on Stage”: The Fullness of Life

  Why does a Cambridge University professor of Medieval and Renaissance literature continue to fascinate the world more than fifty years after his death? The London Times ranked C.S. Lewis eleventh on their list of “the 50 greatest British writers since 1945”. Plays and movies have been written about this long dead professor, and Lewis’ […]

September 15, 2014 – 7:47 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in from Paul, History, Talks, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theater, Theology, Uncategorized | Comments Off on “C.S. Lewis on Stage”: The Fullness of Life

Coming October 1…

September 11, 2014 – 7:59 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Books, from Paul, Media, Movies, Talks, Theater, Theology, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Coming October 1…