John Faustus, in his soul-consuming quest for knowledge and power, conjures up the most hellish spirits of the underworld, and strikes a bargain with the devil that's just too good to be true.

The unaware student may have been slightly confused upon walking into Barnum 008 this past week, as there were some rather unusual course descriptions scrawled onto the blackboard at the front of the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This anarchic production of Doctor Faustus runs at the Duke of York's Theatre from ...

Any production of “Dr. Faustus” faces two major challenges. First, it is written in Elizabethan blank verse. And second, it’s not written by William Shakespeare. Well, you can throw any reservations ...

The Princeton Shakespeare Company takes on a difficult play with Christopher Marlowe’s “Dr. Faustus” and, for the most part, delivers a profound and captivating show. As a director, Molly O’Neill ’14 ...

Yet it doesn’t take long, when sitting in the candlelit intimacy of the Sam Wanamaker theatre, to work out how utterly apt it is to make a character who seeks forbidden knowledge female. There is, ...

Sandy Grierson and Oliver Ryan play with matches, working out who will play Faustus, who Mephistophilis. In this monologue of an age, an era in thrall to the selfie and the narcissistic navel-gazing ...

Doctor Faustus is Christopher Marlowe's most renowned and controversial work. Famous for being the first dramatised version of the Faustus tale, the play depicts the sinister aftermath of Faustus's ...

When a New Orleans summer turns hot as hell, many stages turn to the lighter fare of musicals and slight comedies. Ever daring, however, actor and director Michael Martin turns this month to the very ...

Kelly Howe has taught a certain Gertrude Stein play for years, and each class would inevitably ask how she would stage it. She never had a perfect answer. Finally, she decided to seek out that answer ...