Jocelyn Jee Esien and Pauline McLynn are on glorious form and bring out the glee in Marlowe’s macabre classic When asked why she decided to make Doctor Faustus and Mephistopheles female, director ...

Thou art too ugly to attend on me. Go, and return an old Franciscan friar, That holy shape becomes a devil best." Doctor Faustus, a central character of Christopher Marlowe’s play, is primarily an ...

This production of the mortality play falls flat with diabolical sing-alongs, awful fight choreography and star Chris Noth wishing he were somewhere else In Doctor Faustus at Classic Stage Company, ...

Must theater sell its soul for new audiences? Director Jamie Lloyd has made it his mission to bring a new generation into theater, but at what price? Canny casting pulls in a young crowd; flashy ...

There's no denying the hard work that has gone into the new Young Vic production of "Doctor Faustus," but one wonders by play's end whether even the most star-struck of spectators will feel charitable ...

The cocky protagonist of “Doctor Faustus” may be bored silly by philosophy, medicine, law and theology (and face it, who isn’t?), but selling his immortal soul is a remedy that seems a tad extreme ...

“Doctor Faustus” fully titled as the “Tragical History of Life & Death of Doctor Faustus” is produced by prolific playwright Christopher Marlowe. This drama is set in Elizabethan era which follows the ...

'Game of Thrones' hearthtrob Kit Harington stars as the original man who sells his soul in Jamie Lloyd's London revival of Christopher Marlowe's 16th century drama. By Leslie Felperin Contributing ...

Harington starts as a hermit in a hoodie, a square-eyed millennial drooling bungee-chords of phlegm off the end of his bed. The Internet is the font of his knowledge, and when he flips open his laptop ...

Chris Noth plays the title role in this off-Broadway revival of Christopher Marlowe's classic Elizabethan play, which also features Zach Grenier of 'The Good Wife.' By THR Staff Doctor Faustus ...