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Category: Theater Reviews

The Fox-Trap

Laura Kolb (Baruch College) Ben Jonson’s Volpone, or the Fox is often read as a condemnation of greed. The title […]

Brief Take on RSC Volpone

Jonson’s comedies usually come in for large doses of updating, as his topical humor requires footnotes; with its substantial rewrites, […]

Welcome to Hell: Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus at the Classic Stage Company

Laura Kolb, Ph.D. (Baruch College) Early in the Classic Stage Company’s production of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, Mephistopheles makes his […]

Man is Wolf to Man: Review of Wolf Hall Parts 1 and 2

Amy D. Stackhouse, Ph.D. Iona College The Winter Garden Theater, New York City April 25, 2015 Full disclosure: I think […]

Laughing as Your Heart Breaks: Shakespeare Globe’s King Lear at NYU’s Skirball

Kim Paffenroth (Iona College) Perhaps the easiest way to begin reflecting on this production, directed by Bill Buckhurst, would be […]