The Catholic Register Wed, 22 Jan 2025 22:26:13 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb 'Doubt' seeks the truth over certainty /opinion/guest-columnists/item/34903-doubt-seeks-the-truth-over-certainty /opinion/guest-columnists/item/34903-doubt-seeks-the-truth-over-certainty

B&E Theatre is presenting John Patrick ShanleyƵapp Doubt: A Parable, one of my favourite plays, at the Church of the Holy Trinity behind TorontoƵapp Eaton Centre. A clever idea to immerse the play in a Church, but not a Catholic Church.

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Guest Columns Thu, 27 Oct 2022 10:29:51 -0400
Badlands Passion Play makes triumphant return /features/arts/item/34616-badlands-passion-play-makes-triumphant-return /features/arts/item/34616-badlands-passion-play-makes-triumphant-return

Following two summers of cancellations brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadian Badlands Passion Play returned each Friday, Saturday and Sunday July 1 through 17 to dramatize the epic life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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qamundson@catholicregister.private (Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register) Arts News Thu, 21 Jul 2022 09:37:22 -0400
'Superstar' resurrected for 50th anniversary /features/arts/item/33806-superstar-resurrected-for-50th-anniversary /features/arts/item/33806-superstar-resurrected-for-50th-anniversary

Count Fr. Paul Massel among the Canadian theatre lovers hyped for the return of Jesus Christ Superstar, now on stage in Toronto.

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qamundson@catholicregister.private (Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register) Arts News Wed, 08 Dec 2021 12:20:04 -0500
Troubadours raise curtain on their love of theatre /item/31187-troubadours-raise-curtain-on-their-love-of-theatre /item/31187-troubadours-raise-curtain-on-their-love-of-theatre

A play featuring gangsters and gamblers doesn’t immediately conjure up many Christian images, but Guys and Dolls isn’t your typical play. 

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Youth Speak News Wed, 26 Feb 2020 11:17:26 -0500
In new musical, disability rights activist tackles assisted suicide /home/international/item/23757-in-new-musical-disability-rights-activist-tackles-assisted-suicide /home/international/item/23757-in-new-musical-disability-rights-activist-tackles-assisted-suicide

LONDON, England - Physician-assisted suicide has been a subject of controversy for several years, but Liz Carr is taking the issue somewhere it has never been before: the musical theatre.

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cna-ewtn@catholicregister.org (CNA/EWTN News) International Sun, 04 Dec 2016 07:00:00 -0500
Shroud of Turin replica caught in bylaw battle /item/23681-shroud-of-turin-replica-caught-in-bylaw-battle /item/23681-shroud-of-turin-replica-caught-in-bylaw-battle

TORONTO – It takes faith to thumb your nose at city hall, and Reg Hartt has plenty.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Canada: Toronto-GTA Fri, 25 Nov 2016 12:00:00 -0500
Lafayette bishop offers prayers in wake of theatre shooting /home/international/item/20638-lafayette-bishop-offers-prayers-in-wake-of-theatre-shooting /home/international/item/20638-lafayette-bishop-offers-prayers-in-wake-of-theatre-shooting

LAFAYETTE, La. - Bishop Michael Jarrell of Lafayette offered prayers and sympathy to the victims of a multiplex cinema shooting July 23 in Lafayette in which two were killed and nine wounded.

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cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) International Sun, 26 Jul 2015 11:30:00 -0400
TeacherƵapp play an extension of Catholic education /features/arts/item/14752-teacher%E2%80%99s-play-an-extension-of-catholic-education /features/arts/item/14752-teacher%E2%80%99s-play-an-extension-of-catholic-education

TORONTO - Liezl Mejia believes everything happens for a reason. She feels itƵapp important to have faith and always believe God is there for you. And this is the message Mejia, who plays the main character Mary in St. Joseph Secondary SchoolƵapp musical Waiting for God, hopes audiences will walk away with.

“I’m blessed to have this opportunity because it made me feel that I was a living testimony to GodƵapp existence,” says Mejia, whose character is literally waiting for God to show up at a bus stop after her fiancé dies of cancer. During her wait, she encounters a variety of characters.

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vanessa@catholicregister.org (Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo, The Catholic Register) Arts News Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:32:17 -0400
The ‘Real’ in our reality /opinion/columnists/item/14643-the-%E2%80%98real%E2%80%99-in-our-reality /opinion/columnists/item/14643-the-%E2%80%98real%E2%80%99-in-our-reality

Most of us wish the title of Greg WolfeƵapp book Beauty Will Save the World could come true.

But few of us would automatically agree with the argument made in Italian dramatist Romeo CastellucciƵapp newest work — On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God — that even human waste can serve the faith.

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peterstockland@catholicregister.org (Peter Stockland) Peter Stockland Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:08:47 -0400
Faith in the footlights: Religion gets a curtain call on Broadway /features/arts/item/14482-faith-in-the-footlights-religion-gets-a-curtain-call-on-broadway /features/arts/item/14482-faith-in-the-footlights-religion-gets-a-curtain-call-on-broadway

NEW YORK - Can it be? Has Broadway found religion?

According to one recent article, a bumper crop of faith-themed shows, like "Jesus Christ Superstar," "Godspell," "Book of Mormon" and "Sister Act," has transformed Broadway into a "highway to heaven."

So why the great awakening on the Great White Way?

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Arts News Mon, 21 May 2012 09:32:00 -0400