In his one-man show “Laugh Whore,” Mario Cantone looked back in anger at his New York stage debut. He got stuck playing a rustic in one of Shakespeare’s comedies, and night after night in Central Park ...

If being virtuous is such a good thing, why is it that so many great writers get so much mileage out of characters who are not virtuous? This isn’t just a modern phenomenon, either. Writers as far ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Austin Shakespeare's production of El Cid is a contemporary adaptation of ...

The theme is as old as Homer: A son sets out in search of his missing father. His quest isn’t only to find the man who brought him into the world: It’s a quest to learn who he truly is. The theme ...

There are three great Spanish epic poems, and each of them tell tales of valor and honor in medieval times. However, the Cantar de Mio Cid stands out as the oldest and best preserved of these classic ...

It makes sense that Tony Kushner penned a loose English-language adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s L’Illusion Comique in the 1980s, not long before he started working on Angels in America. Corneille’s ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Romance Notes was founded in 1959 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is published three times a year. The ...

What's the funniest play ever written? I used to think it was "Noises Off," but now that I've seen "The Liar," I'm not so sure. David Ives's English-language adaptation of Pierre Corneille's 1644 ...