TARTUFFE is a riot as Moliere intended and as HUB THEATRE COMPANY of BOSTON presents it. Onstage at the BCA PLAZA only through this weekend, this show explodes the confines of this tiny space with inventive performances, clever staging, and a plot as relevant in 2024 as it was the first time it was performed [...]
"Pious, pompous, puffed up twits" beware: the Huntington Theatre Company's TARTUFFE is a screamingly funny, jubilant debunking of fakery in all its forms! Moliere's 17th century satire anticipated "the Enlightenment" as reason trumps religious pretense in this tale of a hypocritical holy man Tartuffe (actor/comedian Brett Gelman "Stranger Things") who hoodwinks a gentleman and head of [...]
So much theater-- so little time! Here's a round up beginning with the best of what's onstage right now! TALLEY'S FOLLY at Merrimack Repertory Theatre is terrific. This 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning play set on July 4, 1944 by Lanford Wilson about two lonely souls navigating a potentially romantic relationship finds a lovely home at the [...]
