Taylor Mac does not set out to bite the hand that feeds in a new play satirizing cultural philanthropy. The MacArthur “genius ...

A new play by MacArthur "genius grant" recipient Taylor Mac invites questions about the moral value of philanthropy in a society denounced by the comedy as "feudal." ...

Jean-Paul Rouve leads the way in a singing, costumed version of Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, to be performed at the Théâtre Antoine from November 2025. Directed by Jérémie Lippmann, this ...

“Prosperous Fools,” adapted by the protean queer theatre-maker Taylor Mac from Molière’s “Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme,” turns the tension between making art and making money into an ...

View Costume Designs for Le Bourgeois gentilhomme or “The Would be Gentleman (1944) By Berman Eugène; Watercolor and ink on paper; Each 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (31.8 x 24.1 cm); Signed; . Access more ...

Funny, With a Little Teeth: 2 Playwrights on the Lineage and Lens of Molière Taylor Mac, whose new play ‘Prosperous Fools’ is loosely inspired by ‘Le Bourgeois gentilhomme,’ and Jeffrey Hatcher, who ...

When the police searched Le Scouarnec's house they found 300,000 indecent photos and videos of children, 70 child-sized dolls and hundreds of notebooks and diaries detailing his acts of abuse.

Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, called an "atomic bomb of pedophilia" in court, has been sentenced to prison for abusing hundreds of patients, most of them children.

Le Scouarnec was convicted of possession of child pornography and given a suspended sentence, but returned to work at a hospital in northwest France, where the abuse allegedly continued.

Prosperous Fools, inspired by Moliere’s Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, is a brilliant and courageous exploration of philanthropy and its hypocrisies; a retooled comedy of manners for an age with no ...