With its profanity-laced script, Lucas Hnath’s Molière adaptation, starring Matthew Broderick, is a mischievous clash of the ...
As I mentioned in my review of the wonderful The Winter’s Tale, there is a kind of ineffable magic in the air at the historic Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. You feel it the moment you arrive and it ...
Denis O'Hare and Olivia Williams star at the National Theatre in 'Tartuffe: The Imposter,' a radical updating of Molière’s satire of religious hypocrisy. By Demetrios Matheou So many plays in the U.K.
“You deserve to be Tartuffified.” This line, delivered by the hilarious maid Dorine (Lauren Elias) in the Hub Theatre Company of Boston’s production of “Tartuffe” at BCA Plaza Theatre, is a message to ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In the tale, Orgon's family is upset because he is being influenced by Tartuffe, a ...
Thanks to a suggestion by the director executed nicely by the scenic designer, the exploits of titular character Tartuffe are running free in the great out-of-doors. “I had the idea to take this play ...
Moliere wrote Tartuffe 350 years ago, but Richard Wilbur’s English translation of the French script feels contemporary. The social satire concerns a cleric who presents himself as pious while ...
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of Lucas Hnath’s new version of Molière’s classic comedy “Tartuffe” is how surprising it isn’t. Mr. Hnath is one of the most fiercely imaginative American ...
The cast of Circle Theatre's premiere of "Imposter! Hypocrite! Tartuffe!" Artistic director has adapted Molière's classic 17th-century farce in modern language and at a faster pace. “It came about as ...
Three Paris productions — including Ivo van Hove’s take on “Tartuffe” at the Comédie-Française — explore questions of the divine. By Laura Cappelle PARIS — When Molière first presented “Tartuffe,” in ...