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Bill Irwin, who may well be our greatest living clown, stars in his own adaptation of Molière’s 1673 play about a domineering ...

The result is "L'Astrologue ou les Faux Presages" (The Astrologer or the False Omens), a comedy that will debut next year in the Palace of Versailles, where Louis XIV, Moliere's patron, held court ...

Regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and indeed, world literature, Euronews Culture celebrates the 400th anniversary of Molière's birth. Saturday marks the 400th anniversary ...

The actor not only stars in but adapted Molière’s 1673 comedy about a man with rampant medical anxiety, delivering a ...

Molière, France’s most famous playwright, turns 400 this year. Anniversary celebrations in France and around the world shine a light on an author who poked fun at authority, and whose work is said to ...

Molière, the matchless Mozartean writer of comedies, is, however improbably, at the heart of a new debate in Paris. Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, to use his real name, was born, or at least baptized, in ...

If you love Bill Irwin and aren’t squeamish about enemas, you’ll love the famed clown’s new adaptation of Molière’s “The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. French dramatist and actor Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Molière (1622-1673), circa 1660 (Getty) It was a first night like no other.

Literary historian Alain Riffaud has won First Prize in the 19th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography for his Catalogue Molière: 1660–1673 published last year by the Le Mans cultureal association ...

What do Molière and Kansas City have in common? On the surface, not much. But by combining celebrations of the French playwright’s 400th birthday and the State of Missouri’s bicentennial, organisers ...