The Magic Theater scored a major coup in securing "Dr. Faustus," the first production of a new David Mamet work, directed by the author himself. This linguistically tortuous, bone-dry revamp of the ...

Dr. Faustus What a thoroughly bewitching production this is. The magicians at Classical Theatre have outdone themselves in bringing to life this rare Elizabethan gem from Christopher Marlowe.

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 ...

Rock stars selling their souls to the devil is a familiar concept, or at least it was in rock 'n' roll's heyday of the 1960s and '70s, when the burgeoning art form regularly came into conflict with ...

LA CROSSE (WKBT) -- All the world's a stage. Or at least, all of La Crosse seems to be at the moment. On Friday, the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Department of Theatre and Dance will present ...

There are many ways to interpret the richly theatrical Dr Faustus, with its spectacular effects, dancing devils and allegorical characters. So it seems perverse of Philip Wilson to direct a production ...

COMBINING the verse of Christopher Marlowe with “cheap tricks” and “a few cabaret turns” seems an unlikely dramatic choice but works to surprisingly powerful effect in this latest interpretation of ...

IF you think Taylor and Burton are bad in real movie magazine life, you should see them in Doctor Faustus. The film wastes what must have been a lavish budget and ignores the essence of Marlowe's play ...

In this first stage production from Natural Nylon (the company set up by Jude Law and several other A-list celebs), Hollywood meets 16th-century drama as Law himself essays the title role in ...