The 17th-century playwright Molière has been the subject of a couple of high-profile French movies. Both are called “Molière,” although they take radically different approaches to his life and work.

It’s been the year of Molière, and therefore the year of the liar, the hypocrite, the poseur, the clown.

Move over Shakespeare — now there’s something Molière! A new theater company hopes to boost the work of 17th-century French playwright Molière by launching annual productions of his plays in Prospect ...

When Richard Wilbur translates Moliere, the rhymes are beyond compare. If Brian Bedford is acting, the method is very exacting. And with Ming Cho Lee as designer, it's hard to get any finer, since the ...

Three actors and three large free-standing doors occupy the makeshift stage in a Mark Taper Forum rehearsal room. The center doorway has an attached structure and staircase, and serves as backdrop to ...

I really don't like restoration comedies. I find them didactic, repetitive, obvious and really not that...comedic. So, with resignation I headed to the Vagabond Players in Fells Point to witness their ...

Two French researchers from the CNRS and Ecole nationale des chartes disprove the theory according to which Corneille was Molière's ghostwriter - a popular and century-old theory, defended by some ...

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