Casey Audrain has long wanted to stage “The Diviners” at PM&L Theatre — and now she has her chance to direct a play she said she’s loved since she first saw it in the 1980s. It’s not a comedy or a ...

Almost nobody follows literary feuds these days, but those who do still remember Dale Peck’s declaration three years ago in the “New Republic” that Rick Moody “is the worst writer of his generation.” ...

The Diviners begins as it ends — with an account of a fatal drowning. The play’s circular structure suggests both a sad inevitability and a tragic dignity to events in a tiny town in southern Indiana ...

An epic novel with scads of characters has to be a daunting prospect for any audiobook narrator. The gold standard in pulling it off is Roy Dotrice, whose performances of four titles in George R.R.

It takes a village to raise a child, and during the Depression in Zion, Indiana, folks have opinions on raising Buddy Layman despite his daddy's insistence that "kids are fine on their own." A ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Chapter One Rosa Elisabetta Meandro, in insubstantial light, entrails in flames. Rosa Elisabetta of the hammertoe, Rosa Elisabetta of the corns. Rosa ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In Jim Leonard Jr.'s gothic prairie melodrama, a disillusioned Kentucky preacher ...

Set in rural Indiana in the early 1930s, Jim Leonard Jr.’s 1980 play, “The Diviners,” drips with a period regionalism that is almost folkloric in tone. The play requires careful handling, or its ...

Screaming, Buddy Layman (Rod Bagheri) is swept away in the water he has feared his whole life. The sound cuts out, replaced with only the gurgling of rushing water; the cast slows down, intensifying ...

The mournful strains of that heartland hymn “Amazing Grace” sound over the drab-colored set as “The Diviners” opens. The somber music sets the tone. For this is a land of mourning, a place where ...