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March 16, 2023 UCLA tracks seven passion play categories that don’t show up in traditional box scores. The list has grown since Close first implemented the strategy when she was hired at UCLA in ...
Over the past three years I worked with the leaders of the Oberammergau Passion Play as they put together the 42nd production for a pandemic-delayed 2022 season. The play has been performed in the ...
It’s intermission, a three-hour break between acts of the Oberammergau Passion Play. The five-hour production is put on five days a week from May to October, every 10 years. It’s been this way ...
In an attempt to turn the tide, the residents promised that they would perform a passion play – aka a dramatic retelling of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ – once every 10 ...
Frederik Mayet as Jesus on the cross in the Passion Play, a spectacle performed every 10 years by hundreds of townspeople in Oberammergau.Credit... Supported by By Michael Paulson Photographs by ...
White-haired Peter Stückl chuckled as he recounted his many years of acting in the world-famed Passion Play and the villainous role he now performs; his father once played the same role.
It would be hard to choose the most Jewish moment in this year’s production of Oberammergau’s Passion Play, the grand spectacle that recounts the story of Jesus Christ’s trial, suffering ...
Nine years ago, seeing a production of the Passion play "Jesus of Nazareth" at the Family Christian Center in Griffith changed Ramon Ruiz's life, turning him, he says, toward God and his family.
And when the curtain rose on a performance of the 2022 Passion Play, a group from Mohawk United Methodist Church was there to see it. “I was fascinated … just the whole process, and this is a ...
Hundreds of people followed the performance of a passion play through the streets of Hull on Good Friday. Forty actors depicted the events of the last week of Jesus's life, crucifixion and ...
As the history of St. John the Baptist Church in Over-the-Rhine goes, Father Wurth decided to honor Cincinnati’s sacrifice to the war with a pledge of prayer through a Passion Play.