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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Say what you will about Lucifer's clockwork precision, but Dr. Faustus maintains his claim to immortal status. Inarguably one of the most brilliant and tortured characters in Western literature, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...