Poor Clare at the Orange Tree Theatre review: this riches to rags fable is polished but tone deaf - 3/5 This meditation on wealth inequality draws hang-wringing parallels to the Middle Ages– with mixe ...

Mitzi Peirone’s second feature is a murky and stylistically busy tale in which those who terrorize young women get stalked by ...

How would the life of Saint Clare of Assisi have played out if she was a Valley girl?’ is probably not a question you’ve ever ...

The Pontiff paused in prayer in the monastery chapel, sharing a moment of silence and contemplation with the sisters, whom he ...

What am I, a philosophical if not political Marxist whose hero is Antonio Gramsci, doing in Harvey Nichols buying Comme des ...

There came a point where this play became as predictable as night follows day. Clare (Arsema Thomas), who was to become St ...

Riding in a gray Volkswagen sedan, the pope first went to the local headquarters of the Carabinieri, a branch of the Italian ...

What do you know about St Clare?The founder of the Poor Clares, perhaps? A great contemplative who twice saved Assisi from invading armies by the power of prayer and was known as alter Franciscus - ...

In 1878, two nieces of Pope Pius IX ended their "begging tour" of the West in Omaha, where they could set up the first Order of the Poor Clares in ...

Recently, we had the chance to speak with Liz Kettle, who plays Peppa, one of Clare’s servants. We discussed how she went ...

Set in 1211 Italy, playwright Chiara Atik tells the story of St Clare of Assisi, founder of the Order of Poor Ladies (later called The Poor Clares), who renounced her family’s wealth and status and ...