Month: November 2022

Before he wrote Angela’s Ashes, McCourt spent 30 years teaching in public high schools in New York. A typical educator he was not. There were odd-ball singalongs in class, field trips to the movies, and, inevitably, firings because he refused to suffer the foolishness of …

An American missionary crosses into North Korea with “treacherous” religious materials on his hard drive. What follows is a 15-year sentence of hard labor and a life of deprivation and indoctrination. Throughout his ordeal, Bae maintains his faith and does what Jesus would do, trying …

This play about addiction, friendship and love is a hard-edged hoot and an affecting character study. Jackie is a recovering addict who’s going straight after his latest prison stretch. Ralph D. is his sponsor, a sage of Big Book wisdoms who can maybe help keep …