Virgin Mary News
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The Virgin Mary, Snow White, Jack Donaghy and a sober Texan all had a tough go of it on Broadway last week, as plays and even some musicals struggled in the final days before the deadline for Tony Awards nominations.
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“If you want witnesses then I am one,” says the Mother of Jesus in the astonishing new play, “The Testament of Mary,” that opened last night on Broadway.
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Pale Ophelia floats in a tangle of flowers, yet her open-mouthed expression suggests not the coming of death but an artist’s model immersed too long in a cold bath.
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Not every hero could slaughter all the monks in a monastery and sail home with his swagger intact.
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The three members of the female punk group Pussy Riot set out merely to protest the return to power of President Vladimir Putin. Now, their show trial is threatening to become a turning point in Russian history.
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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico proposed abolishing two of the country’s 14 public holidays, saying the additional working days would offset austerity measures.
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Matt Long poked around the sooty ground in front of the charred remains of his home of 15 years.
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Florentine authorities and residents were appalled when the cast of MTV’s “Jersey Shore” invaded the Tuscan capital for the show’s fourth season, which will debut Aug. 4. What were Snooki and The Situation doing associating themselves with the refined city of Dante and Botticelli (not to mention Ferragamo)? Even New Jersey won’t claim these louts.
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Mark Rylance has changed gender.
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The Chinese entrepreneur and the Peruvian shopkeeper have never met. Yet Li Shiping’s dream of riches and success in China is uprooting Victor Raul Ancieta’s village 18,000 kilometers (11,000 miles) away in the Andes.
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