Plays, by their very nature, are usually more about what's said than about action; and a play about a person who's in therapy is especially likely to be "talky." So how do you keep a show from being ...

SHINING CITY is a haunting play, dense with urban lives that brush against one another while never making contact. John (Matthew Broderick) is seeking help from Ian, a counselor (Billy Carter), after ...

The night after I saw Shining City, I had a dream. It started with some reassuringly everyday stuff about working in a kitchen with a small, spry, hyper-conventional and hyper-competent aproned woman ...

What happens when the shining city on the hill becomes a tale of two cities? In one city, there is freedom and family, church and community, and patriotism and order. In another, there is anarchy and ...

Anna Eisenberg's empty USAID badge holder is seen next to USAID pins, a coin from the USAID Office of Inspector General awarded to her mother, Cathy Votaw, and photographs of her grandfather, Albert ...

In his 1989 farewell address, President Ronald Reagan described his vision for the future of the United States as a “shining city upon a hill” … “teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and ...

In the first issue of The Nation, published in 1865, three months after the end of the Civil War, the magazine rejoiced about the prospect of finally fulfilling our country’s early promise: “We ...