There's a message in 'La Bete' pertaining to the corruption of art in a populist culture and it certainly resonates today. But even more resonant is the mastery of craft on such vivid display. The fly ...

The sold out London hit is now the toast of Broadway! The showdown between high and low brow is on in Broadway’s newest smash comedy about two radically-different playwrights and the princess who pits ...

Rhyming couplets and curly fright wigs and lots of facial mugging are the kind of conceits more beloved by theater-folk than theatergoers. Actors are trained on classics like Moliere; hamming it up ...

American playwright David Hirson's rollicking 1991 play, LA BÊTE, is a comic tour de force about Elomire (David Hyde Pierce), a high-minded classical dramatist who loves only the theater, and Valere ...

Two plays with limited engagements, “A Life in the Theatre” and “La Bete,” recently got a bit more limited, with producers of each announcing a closing date that was sooner than legiters expected. But ...

FRANKLIN — Melissa Reinertson of Franklin will play Madeline in the Dean College production of “La Bete,” from Feb. 20 to 23. “La Bete,” translates as “the beast” or “the fool” in French, and this ...