A new-fangled look at old-fangled mores, Amy Freed's ''Restoration Comedy'' reveals that virtue and vice can co-exist as effortlessly as the wig and the codpiece. Freed's creation is a fast and loose ...

Like last year's 'Twelfth Night' this production shows a sweet understanding of the play and how it works, a great love and ...

Aphra Behn (1640–1689) lived an extraordinary life as one of the first women in England to earn her living as a professional playwright. Before breaking barriers in the theatre, she worked as an ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. A modern day Restoration Comedy with a contemporary gender fluid slant ...

It seems more than fitting, then, that Mike Bartlett has revived the most decadent form of theatre to chronicle London in the age of Johnson. After decades of Puritanism, the Restoration encouraged ...