'Nathan the Wise': A Christian, a Muslim, and a Jew Walk into a Play
by Samuel L. Leiter One of the most important works of its time, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's German "dramatic poem" (which premiered 1783), Nathan the Wise, is now in a rare American revival directed by Brian Kulick at Classic Stage Company. Its first stagings failed but after a successful 1801 production by Goethe and Schiller it […]