Nicholas Hytner's smartly updated production of "The Alchemist" -- the latest in the National Theater's Travelex £10 season -- is a giant con. And that's a compliment. It's hard to think of a ...

"In 1610, William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and Ben Jonson's satiric farce The Alchemist triumphantly re-opened the theatre in London," says Artistic Director Alexander Burns.

The Alchemist is an adaptation of the original popular comedy by Ben Jonson.When Master Lovewit flees the city for the country to avoid the plague, he leaves his butler, Jeremy, in charge of his ...

That trio of con people at the centre of Ben Jonson's 1610 comedy have set up shop in a plague-vacated house to part fools from their money – and have found no short supply of greedy gulls in ...

'The Alchemist' by Ben Jonson is a comedy play set in London. Due to an outbreak of plague in the city, Lovewit is forced to temporarily flee away leaving behind his butler Jeremy to take care of ...

P.T. Barnum was right. Apparently, there really was a sucker born every minute, even 400 years ago. In the 1610 comedy “The Alchemist,” playwright Ben Jonson wrote about upper-class Londoners ...

Back in 1610, a London theatergoer who had a choice between two new plays, “Cymbeline” by William Shakespeare and “The Alchemist” by Ben Jonson, might very well have chosen the latter.

Despite a smattering of baffling 17th-century slang, the RSC’s production of Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist at the Barbican is an enjoyable, high-energy comedy, says Matthew Partridge.

Bonnie J. Monte directs and adapts Ben Jonson's play. Skip to Article. Set weather. Back To Main Menu Close. Quick Look- ... The Alchemist Where: Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, ...

BEN Jonson was a prominent member in the stellar cast of William Shakespeare's contemporaries. There was Christopher Marlowe, who said those who loved not tobacco and boys were fools and who died ...