In the New York premiere of Bill Cain's dramatic, compelling, and visceral thriller, Daniel Reeves is arrested and prosecuted for acts that he may have committed while serving in the U.S. Army during ...

Dante Alighieri built his idea of hell as a colossal conical structure that opens up underneath Jerusalem and reaches the centre of the Earth. He makes his descent steadily, accompanied by Virgil. The ...

The title of Bill Cain’s drama, “9 Circles,” alludes to the concentric regions of torment described in Dante’s “Inferno.” But given the emotional workout actor Julian Elijah Martinez appears to get, ...

Ice, a 6-year-old Siberian husky with bright blue eyes and a gentle demeanor, seemed to know something was wrong. A man in his vicinity was speaking in a loud, clipped voice and sometimes straining ...

Pictured are Chiké Johnson (left) and Casey Hoekstra in Next Act Theatre’s “9 Circles.” (Photo by Timothy Moder.) When the world shut down in March 2020, Next Act Theatre in Milwaukee had just ...

Jesuit playwright Bill Cain S.J., has penned a new and searingly powerful play. Just a year after his earlier successful play about the gun powder plot, Equivocation (see my review), Cain portrays in ...

Hot on the heels of the president's announced troop withdrawals from Iraq, the Bootleg Theater offers a disturbing vision of what that nine-year war has turned us into. Hot on the heels of the ...