Articles about La Bete
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Broadway return of 'La Bete,' with Mark Rylance and David Hyde Pierce, may leave you speechless
High brow play meets low brow production. Will it work? We'll have to wait and see.
High and low art collide deliriously in "La Bete," David Hirson's quirky comedy set in 17th-century France and spoken in verse. Back on Broadway 19 years Âafter its first famously ephemer…
David Hyde Pierce, Mark Rylance and Joanna Lumley star in the revival of this Moliere-inspired comedy (in verse!) about the battle that ensues when a princess insists upon allowing a low-bro…
Michael Donald Edwards, Asolo Repertory Theatre's producing artistic director, announced today his selections for the 2010-2011 season. A major highlight of Asolo Rep's 52nd season is the pr…
American playwright David Hirson's rollicking 1991 play, LA BTE, is a comic tour de force about Elomire David Hyde Pierce, a high-minded classical dramatist who loves only the theater, and V…
The first major revival of David Hirson's Olivier Award-winning comedy LA BTE starring Tony and Olivier Award winner Mark Rylance, Tony and Emmy Award winner David Hyde Pierce, and BAFTA Awa…
Legit News: Pierce, Lumley, Rylance topline show -- The Broadway revival of David Hirson's 1991 verse play "La Bete" opened Thursday at the Music Box Theater.
Throughout the rhyme-filled comedy La Bete, the characters played by David Hyde Pierce, Mark Rylance and Joanna Lumley discuss the importance of ple...
For his latest creation, Broadway.com resident artist Justin 'Squigs' Robertson has captured the animosity between La Bete's resident intellectual E...
Is Broadway ready for a farce in rhyming couplets -- even iwith the brilliant Mark Rylance and a stellar supporting cast?
Legit News: 'Jackson,' 'Theater,' 'Bete' all lift a glass -- Last week was a long one on Broadway thanks to three openings in a row -- the kind of packed sked more common in the last-minut…
Legit News: Two Broadway shows curtail limited runs -- Two plays with limited engagements, "A Life in the Theatre" and "La Bete," recently got a bit more limited, with producers of each anno…
Michael Donald Edwards, Asolo Repertory Theatre's producing artistic director, announced today his selections for the 2010-2011 season. A major highlight of Asolo Rep's 52nd season is the pr…
La Bete, which opened Oct. 14 at the Music Box Theatre after a run in London’s West End this summer, recently filmed a promo featuring the show’s three stars (Tony winners Mark R…
Brisitsh television star Joanna Lumley is making her Broadway debut playing the tense, strict Princess in La Bete. Lumley is most famous for her role of Patsy Stone, the fashion editor, in A…
Two more stories for AOL's recently launched City's Best. The first one is on the Off-Off-Broadway revival of Manson: The Musical: If anything can be a musical ("The Origin of Species" anyon…
About the Author: At age 29, David Hirson completed the daunting task of writing a play composed entirely in rhyming verse. The next task was even more daunting: getting his script produced.…
In La Bete, Mark Rylance not only has the difficult task of performing a script written entirely in rhyming verse, but as the buffoonish street clown Valere, he delivers a nearly 40-minute-l…
BroadwayWorld.com is pleased to present illustrator Ken Fallin, who brings you original illustrations of everyone's favorite theatrical stars each week. This week's feature David Hyde Pierce…
This ebullient revival of David Hirson's "La Bete" is largely a winner.
Warchus' production transfers to Broadway in September and it will be most interesting to see how it is received there after the American chilly critical response in the 1990s.
