ROME — Hollywood may have sneered when Mel Gibson, in September 2002, preceded by a somersaulting dwarf, walked into a packed press conference room at Rome’s Cinecitta Studios, lit a cigarette and ...

Passion Plays - the dramatic representations of the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ - began in medieval Europe as a way to teach a largely illiterate population the biblical story.

The U. S. has no Oberammergau, nestling among mountains and presenting every decade a Passion Play to commemorate its deliverance from pestilence.* But many a Roman Catholic parish offers some kind of ...

The preacher’s weekly challenge—What story shall I tell?—is perhaps less challenging in Holy Week than at any other time except Christmas. The Passion story provides characters, plot, dynamics, and ...

Age sets easily on the hills of northern California just beyond Clear Lake. Here on what was once the Beltramo Ranch, where the Lake County Passion Play is presented each year, steep hills wear the ...

There were Roman soldiers in authentic costumes beating Jesus cruelly with whips as he dragged a bloodstained cross. A resurrection scene with rumbling thunder and dancing red lasers. And Jesus rising ...

Before the chaos of March descended on Pauley Pavilion this week, Cori Close gathered her team at center court at the end of practice. During this time of the year, teams that remember and embrace ...

After a two-year pandemic delay, villagers in the German town of Oberammergau are once again re-enacting the story of Jesus’s life and death, with some changes. Frederik Mayet as Jesus on the cross in ...

Actor Frederik Mayet portrays Christ at the 2010 Passion Play Theater in Oberammergau, Germany. Mayet has been chosen as one of two actors to portray Jesus this year. The 2022 performance runs May ...

Screenwriter Mitch Glazer's first directorial effort, "Passion Play," starring Mickey Rourke and Megan Fox, is a sentimental noir fable aimed at movie buffs with a soft spot for tough guys with tender ...

Jews have long criticized passion plays (re-creations of the events surrounding the Crucifixion), especially those regularly performed in South Dakota, Georgia and Florida and the most famous, one ...

Passion Plays - the dramatic representations of the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ - began in medieval Europe as a way to teach a largely illiterate population the biblical story.