The Archdiocese of New York Gets Into the Off-Broadway Theater Scene
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
By Pia Catton
NEW YORK---The Archdiocese of New York is getting into the downtown theater scene. This spring, the Catholic organization will open the doors to the Sheen Center, a 25,000-square-foot arts center at Bleecker and Elizabeth streets with two theaters and four rehearsal studios available for rent. "We had been thinking that we wanted a place to showcase Christian humanism—the true, the good and the beautiful," said the center's executive director Msgr. Michael F. Hull. "We needed a place that could be dedicated to that kind of service alone." Among the Center's leadership is artistic director Jessica Bashline, a former actor and director most recently with the Manhattan-based arts-education organization Wingspan Arts. She said that while the church is the driver of the Center's mission, that mission is to be inclusive: "The guidelines have been clear—to find art that is interesting." [link]
By Pia Catton
NEW YORK---The Archdiocese of New York is getting into the downtown theater scene. This spring, the Catholic organization will open the doors to the Sheen Center, a 25,000-square-foot arts center at Bleecker and Elizabeth streets with two theaters and four rehearsal studios available for rent. "We had been thinking that we wanted a place to showcase Christian humanism—the true, the good and the beautiful," said the center's executive director Msgr. Michael F. Hull. "We needed a place that could be dedicated to that kind of service alone." Among the Center's leadership is artistic director Jessica Bashline, a former actor and director most recently with the Manhattan-based arts-education organization Wingspan Arts. She said that while the church is the driver of the Center's mission, that mission is to be inclusive: "The guidelines have been clear—to find art that is interesting." [link]
