As chamber music blares, robed figures whisper, "He had it coming." A demon, dressed like a symphony conductor, uncloaks them and they scatter to the shadows in hurried, frantic movements. The demon, ...

Jenna Russell has been announced to join Kit Harington in Jamie Lloyd's production of Doctor Faustus. The Grey Gardens and Urinetown star will play the demon Mephistopheles, a role usually played by a ...

The unaware student may have been slightly confused upon walking into Barnum 008 this past week, as there were some rather unusual course descriptions scrawled onto the blackboard at the front of the ...

Doctor John Faustus has reached and expanded the limits of human knowledge. In search of a deeper understanding of the universe and its laws, all that's left to do is to turn to the supernatural. So, ...

As we reach the end of the tragedy of the First Part of Faust and look back, we seem to have come, with Mephistopheles, upon that midway height where we can see only with astonishment “ how Mammon in ...

Independent Shakespeare Co.’s production of “Doctor Faustus” was part of their annual Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival. The theater troupe also produced Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost” in ...

The Faustian legend doesn’t quite strike terror into the heart of modern audiences. Elizabethan theatregoers would have been fearful of the dire fate awaiting ...