For her raucous, lewd "Restoration Comedy," Amy Freed has ransacked the plots of one minor and one substantial old play to forge a pastiche saluting 17th century mores and stagecraft while skewering ...

Actress Veanne Cox and restoration comedy were made for each other. After making an inspired local debut in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of “The Beaux’ Stratagem” last year, Cox now ...

Directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, a 2012 Drama Desk Award nominee for These Seven Sicknesses, the production features the Flea's resident acting company, The Bats, and continues through Dec. 30.

In this 21st Century Restoration comedy (one of three Bartlett plays currently running in London), we begin at the residence of Aunty Julie – played with laconic worldliness by Emma Cunniffe (pictured ...

The Pearl Theatre Company returns to Restoration comedy with “The Constant Couple,” a seldom-seen 1699 comedy by George Farquhar (“The Beaux’ Strategem”), which opened last night. But though director ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Hansol Jung’s new play riffs on Greek dramas, the Restoration comedy “The Country Wife” and Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America.” By Laura ...