Tartuffe is a dark comedy about a religious hypocrite who deceives and seduces a wealthy family that has been performed for years and yet may never be more relevant. With a razor-sharp translation by ...
Hucksters peddling sham piety to gullible marks? Long before the contemporary spectacles of crooked televangelists and holier-than-thou politicians, Molière was all over the subject in one of his best ...
Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick recently joined Live with Kelly and Mark to discuss his latest role as the title ...
Every great dramatic masterpiece poses a question about a protagonist that expresses the “darker purpose,” to borrow a phrase from “King Lear,” of a playwright’s vision. The classic example, of course ...
Fake piety and the stupidity of the rich prove to be as resonant topics now as they where when Molière wrote 'Tartuffe' in 1664. Toccarra Cash, Jennifer Mudge, Naomi Lorrain and Jared McNeill in ...
The article Woodson Theater Stages Adaptation Of Moliere's Classic Comedy 'Tartuffe': Cappies appeared first on Fairfax City ...
Editor’s note: This review of Tartuffe is from the 2017 run. The Stratford Festival production is now on at Canadian Stage (presented with Crow’s Theatre, Groundling Theatre Company and David versus ...
It’s not just love affairs that begin with the perfect pair. In Molière’s Tartuffe, a fool finds his knave and they demonstrate how mightily a bamboozled man will resist the truth, and how easily a ...
I’ll confess that it took me a moment to realize that “Tartuffe: Born Again,” one of the offerings in Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum’s 2024 repertory season, is actually quite an entertaining ...
Tartuffe (which means ‘imposter’) is a famous theatrical comedy by Molière, which was first performed way back in the year 1664. Naturally, countless adaptations of this play have spurred in the past ...
TARTUFFE proved to be one of the dazzling highlights of a Capital of Culture year full of memorable moments. And three years on, Roger McGough’s take on Molière’s 17th century farce, revived for this ...