You can't win 'em all. Whether tackling Genet or Beckett or Shakespeare, Classical Theater of Harlem's imagination and interpretive insight usually invigorates a playwright's vision of the cosmic ...

The Valencia Character Company will present Peter Weiss' play-within-a-play, "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the ...

Twitching, trembling. Stuttering, staggering. Yelling, yowling. Jabbering and gesticulating. Young actors tend to love the chance to get in-your-face with extreme behavior, as in Balagan Theatre’s ...

If you’re looking for a happy show, WAVE’s “Marat/Sade” (directed by Fergus Inder) is not for you. If you’re looking for an intense, interactive, thought-provoking experience, get down to McCormick ...

Peter Weiss’ Tony award winning play “Marat/ Sade” is neither comfortable nor instantly pleasurable. “Marat/ Sade” is the truncated name for the play’s long title, which is, “The Persecution and ...

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The first bit of brilliance attributable to this Right Brain Project show is that they thought to do it at all. Peter Weiss’s great Brechtian provocation had seemed pretty much forgotten; as far as I ...

Peter Brook’s original 1964 production of Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade—“(full title upon request),” as Walter Kerr once put it in Harper’s—is legendary among theater talkers. Weiss’s nose-thumbing ...