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 ...

The Diviners borders, at times, on the precious: Buddy refers to the parts of his body with funny names, and his father, a mechanic, says to him, “You’re making more noise than a half-blowed ...

On the other hand, some things about The Diviners, published in 1974, now feel dated. Laurence had written four novels in a series before this one, her last, and maybe she felt pressure to write ...

”The Diviners,” an unusual drama by James Leonard Jr. now playing at Stage Left Theatre, is about a disturbed rural youth and his missionary healer, recalling more famous works such as ”The ...

The premiere of a new work from People Show, forerunners of devised theatre, is set for this October. People Show 145: The Diviners comes to Golden Goose Theatre, Camberwell Tuesday 10 to Saturday ...

Vanessa Meandro, “the Minivan,” the fat and mean head of production for an independent film company in New York, sets out to make a 13-part miniseries about water dowsers, aka diviners.