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 ...

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 ...

In the corner, a girl sobs. A man lies center stage, shoulders heaving, utterly beaten. A horde of townspeople stand in the back, stricken and horrified. Suddenly, the tense silence is broken by a ...

The fields lie parched around Zion, Indiana, and townspeople scan the skies for rain. Water is this farming town’s lifeblood, but it can also be Zion’s destroyer: Its force holds this town in thrall.

Although "The Diviners" is about loss of faith, the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies, Performing and Visual Arts' production makes it as much about relationships. That's because most of the ...

From the beginning of "The Diviners," when Zion, Ind., farmer Basil Bennett (Mike Culbertson) announces, "The idiot boy is dead," we know something bad is going to happen in the next two hours. "The ...

A search for water and a search for salvation cross paths in Sacramento State’s production of Jim Leonard Jr.’s drama The Diviners. Directed by Theatre and Dance Professor Michelle Felten, The ...

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. By Rick Moody. Little, Brown, 567 pp. $25.95. The joke of the fake film treatment is that it generates enough buzz that a Cecil B. DeMille-size cast searches for the nonexistent writer, ...

Some people are gifted. They are talented, intelligent or beautiful. Buddy Layman has the gift of finding water. In “The Diviners,” produced by Tri-School Theatre and set in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s ...