Review: PAINTING CHURCHES by David Gordon
I first discovered Tina Howe's beautiful Painting Churches in a college drama class, via the American Playhouse telecast from the mid-'80s. I was a freshman; my paternal grandfather was in the final stages of his life, and my dad had spent the years since my grandmother died acting, along with a host of home health care workers, as his caretaker. I saw a lot of what we were going through in the play, and when grandpa…