The Revolutionists, a historical comedy centered around four women lost to history, is coming to Fisher Theater. See female characters on stage demanding that their stories be heard: playwright Olympe ...

The Black Swamp Players’ production of Lauren Gunderson’s “The Revolutionist” is set in 1793 Paris during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror; however, its relevance resonates just as well in ...

Anesu Chipanera, Tracy Brous, Jocelyn Kerr, and Melanie Moser. Photo by Hoax Photography and Design. When you enter Very Little Theatre’s main stage auditorium to attend the current production of The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alexandra Dawkins, Aimée Beaudoin, Kijo Gatama and Jacquelin Walters in The Revolutionists, taking place at the Varscona Theatre ...

One of the first noises you’ll hear in Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists is the slam of a guillotine. No surprises there for a play about the French Revolution, except that playwright Olympe de ...

The cast of ‘The Revolutionists’ (from left): Lisa Schacher, Marissa Dibilio, Jane Elvire, and Jennifer Adams. (Photo by Perry Tannenbaum) Badass. That’s how Lauren Gunderson describes all the women ...

A gala celebrated the opening of “Sade: Marquis of the Shadows, Prince of the Enlightment” at the Museum of Letters and Manuscripts. Tomas van Houtryve The Count de Sade, the modern descendant of the ...

When ISU Theatre’s fiercely funny comedy “The Revolutionists” opens Thursday, March 5, in Fisher Theater, get ready to laugh – but watch out for the guillotine. Written by playwright Lauren Gunderson, ...

Olympe de Gouges is a name you might remember from your history classes as another casualty of the French Revolution’s bloody Reign of Terror. It’s names like ...

As soon as the audience enters the theatre they are confronted with a guillotine, the most iconic instruments of execution of the French Revolution. This guillotine, though, and indeed all of the set ...

Dan Edelstein is Author of The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin (Princeton University Press) Commenting on the importance of the French Revolution in 1972, the Chinese ...

Fantasy football, for the most part, is pretty standard: You enter a league, you pick your team name, you draft a squad either using a salary cap or a snake draft and then you play an opponent each ...