A Jesuit Off-Broadway: Center Stage with Jesus, Judas, and Life's Big Questions

James Martin

Loyola Press, Mar 1, 2011 - Religion - 272 pages

An Off-Broadway cast has plenty of questions about life and faith—and Fr. James Martin is just the right person to offer some answers.

Can we believe the Bible? Does hell exist? What is sin? A Jesuit Off-Broadway provides answers to these and more questions as it recounts Fr. Martin’s thrilling six months with New York’s LAByrinth Theater Company. Asked to serve as the theological consultant for The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Fr. Martin soon discovers that everyone from the playwright to the actors has pressing questions they want answered.
Over the course of the many weeks leading up to opening night and during the play’s sold-out run, all who are involved in the play come to understand that the sacred and the secular aren’t so far apart after all—and that Fr. Martin is much more than an invaluable adviser: he’s a genuine friend.

Contents

• INTO THE DEEP END: 1
• TEASING THE MIND INTO ACTIVE THOUGHT: 53
• Fully huMAn Fully DIvIne: 127
• the MessIAh hAs A colD: 167
• heArts on FIre: 201
• For Further Reading: 231
• About the Author: 237
• Bibliography: 247

About the author

James Martin, SJ, is associate editor of America magazine. A prolific author, writer, and editor, his books include Searching for God at Ground Zero, In Good Company, My Life with the Saints, and A Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, and his articles have appered in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Tablet, and Commonweal. He resides in New York City.

Stephen Adly Guirgis is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. He is a member and co-artistic director of New York City's LAByrinth Theater Company. His plays have been produced on five continents and throughout the United States. His plays include The Little Flower of East Orange, Our Lady of 121st Street, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, In Arabia, We’d All Be Kings, and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot produced by LAByrinth in collaboration with The Public Theater in 2005.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Jesuit Off-Broadway: Center Stage with Jesus, Judas, and Life's Big Questions
• Author: James Martin
• Contributor: Stephen Adly Guirgis
• Publisher: Loyola Press, 2011
• ISBN: 082942993X, 9780829429930
• Length: 272 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Religious; Drama / Type / Religious & Liturgical; Religion / Spirituality