William Shakespeare was not one to mince words. Or maybe he was — at least in the sense of carving them and parsing them and filleting them into just the right form for the story and meaning he was ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. A post to a group of freelance writers and editors asked, “Have any of you noticed how many TV journalists are misusing ...

Jesuit priest Bill Cain spun his Lower East Side teaching experience into the 1989 play, Stand-Up Tragedy. His second major play, Equivocation, is a “speculative history” of the Gunpowder Plot—an ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. As he watched the World Trade Center towers implode, Bill Cain, ...

At a pivotal moment in “Equivocation,” a key figure in the Bill Cain play comes up with a succinct way to describe theater: “It’s not a way, to lie, you know. It’s a way of telling the truth.” The ...

Bill Cain's new play set in 1606 England begins when King James’ right hand man commissions William Shakespeare to write a new play about the Gunpowder Plot, a recent failed attempt to blow up ...

There are a few famous paradoxes from the pre-Socratic philosopher Zeno of Elea which try to prove that motion is not possible. He was a disciple of Parmenides, who taught that all change is an ...

On Sept. 11, 2001, playwright Bill Cain watched the twin towers of the World Trade Center burn and collapse. That cataclysm inspired him to write a play, “Equivocation,” which made its California ...

What is it like to write in a time of terror? That's the question that came to playwright Bill Cain after a visit to the Tower of London, Britain's notorious royal prison across the river from where ...