Playwright Christopher Marlowe, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, was stabbed to death at the age of 29, leaving behind a number of plays — Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine and The Jew of Malta, among ...

Intricate digital backgrounds, comically exaggerated costumes, and energized performances — Iowa City Community Theatre’s live virtual performance of The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus was a ...

Doctor John Faustus has reached and expanded the limits of human knowledge. In search of a deeper understanding of the universe and its laws, all that's left to do is to turn to the supernatural. So, ...

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WE doubt whether any popular legend has ever taken deeper root among the common people and spread farther in the world than the story of Dr. Faustus and his reckless compact with the Evil One. We do ...

NEW MOVIES Doctor Faustus Lots of grads bring their wives back to the old school and ham it up for home movies — but this is ridiculous. Richard Burton is charging admission. The Burton version of ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A local theater company will be putting on several performances of Christopher Marlow’s play “Doctor Faustus” at Agecroft Hall in Richmond this week. Richmond Shakespeare has ...

Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus is a work of exile, written in the US (1943-47), a bold and sometimes terrifying retelling of the Faust legend through the life of a composer, Adrian Leverkuhn. When I ...

Independent Shakespeare Co.’s production of “Doctor Faustus” was part of their annual Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival. The theater troupe also produced Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost” in ...

The Faustian legend doesn’t quite strike terror into the heart of modern audiences. Elizabethan theatregoers would have been fearful of the dire fate awaiting ...