In Hollywood parlance, they call it “medicine”: a movie or TV show that’s good for you, that teaches you something, that hopefully leaves you inspired. “Amazing Grace,” which opened Thursday at the ...

John Newton was a British sailor who once worked on slave ships but later turned his life around. After surviving a violent storm at sea, he felt a deep change in his heart. He left the slave trade, ...

Surefire stories don’t write themselves. That’s the take-away from Amazing Grace, the epically bad show that opened Thursday at the Nederlander Theatre. The timing certainly couldn’t be better, as ...

In Hollywood parlance, they call it “medicine”: a movie or TV show that’s good for you, that teaches you something, that hopefully leaves you inspired. “Amazing Grace,” which opened Thursday at the ...

On New Year’s Day in 1773, Anglican priest John Newton used one of his poems to illustrate a point in his sermon, and when those words were later set to music by American composer William Walker in ...

Saltmine is a Christian theatre company. Its latest touring production is of a new play scripted by Richard Hasnip based on the life of the late 18th century sailor, poet and clergyman John Newton.

Nearly 250 years after Newton wrote that timeless hymn, Lancaster’s Servant Stage Company will present a concert production of Christopher Smith and Arthur Giron’s “Amazing Grace.” It opens Friday, ...

"You know, the man who wrote the hymn, Amazing Grace, was a slave trader." When my sociology professor dropped that bit of information into an otherwise forgotten lecture in a class on minority groups ...

The most famous hymn in the English language is “Amazing Grace,” written by John Newton in the 18th century. But what exactly is the grace of which Newton speaks? One of the ways he describes the ...