With the congenial Lives of the Saints–now playing the Duke Theatre on 42nd Street through March 27–short-play maestro David Ives returns to the format (if not the form) for which he’s best ...

In “Lives of the Saints,” David Ives has gone from Venus in Furs to Polish Church Ladies in Housedresses. Those dear old things show up in the title piece, which ends this evening of one-acts ...

dog Lives of the Saints, a TV adaptation of Nino Ricci’s immigration trilogy and mask Sophia Loren’s predictably good turn as Vito’s emotionally distant aunt. EXTRAS None. D The 20 best ...

To the earnest, comedy is confusing. How can anything funny be truly serious? Their idea of a good time is a three-hour, six-hankie weeper about an atheist oncologist who comes home from a hard ...

By THR Staff Lives of the Saints Production Still - H 2015 Each of the short works lasts a mere 15 minutes or less, just enough to run their scant ideas into the ground. Unlike All in the Timing ...

A bizarre brew of Brit-grit, magic realism and religious allegory, The Lives Of The Saints could hardly be called unoriginal. But it could be called under-written, over-indulgent and daft.