Reeling between stylish comedy and gothic horror, Faust, Part 1 tells the story of a famous but unfulfilled scientist who makes a deal with the devil to find passion with a beautiful young commoner.

Bargaining with the devil is a chilly yet potent business in “Faust, Part 1,” writer/co-director/thesp Mark Jackson’s free adaptation of Goethe. Arrestingly stripped-down in all aspects save its rich, ...

Faust, Part 1: By Mark Jackson, freely adapted from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Directed by Kevin Clarke and Jackson. With Jackson, Peter Ruocco and Blythe Foster. (Through June 21. 1901 Ashby Ave., ...

Based on: Medicare Meets Mephistopheles By David A. Hyman. 138 pp., illustrated. Washington, DC, Cato Institute, 2006. $14.95 (cloth); $9.95 (paper). 978-1-930865-90-7(cloth); 978-1-930865-92-1 (paper ...