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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Toby Frow's revival of Christopher Marlowe's darkly comic tragedy is certainly quite a performance. In Ben Stones's design, in which the lower tier of the auditorium becomes a circular library full of ...

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 ...

The Magic Theater scored a major coup in securing "Dr. Faustus," the first production of a new David Mamet work, directed by the author himself. This linguistically tortuous, bone-dry revamp of the ...

Dominic Cavendish has been writing about theatre and comedy since the mid-1990s and became the Telegraph's lead theatre critic in 2014. He is the founding editor of the leading audio resource ...

An infernal version of The Lion King: Arthur Darvill and Paul Hilton in Doctor Faustus Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus is one of the most disconcerting plays in the English language. I studied it at school ...

Gertrude Stein's "Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights" is an illuminating slice of theatre of the absurd and a deconstructed story of stories. It takes off on Marlowe's tragedy about a doctor selling his ...