Set during the French Reign of Terror, "Danton's Death" follows the demise of Jacobin leader Georges Danton, who becomes disenchanted with the Revolutionary government and is subsequently sent to the ...

A passé take on Georg Büchner’s 1835 play about the French Revolution leans into the worst instincts of the Comédie-Française, our critic writes. By Laura Cappelle Laura Cappelle is a Paris-based ...

Danton’s Death — Theater Review A guillotine towers over the stage at the end of "Danton's Death" as several French revolutionaries are executed. It's a terrific illusion but just a shame no blade was ...

Danton's Death, directed by Michael Grandage and starring Toby Stephens, features the talents of David Beames, Max Bennett, Stefano Braschi, Kirsty Bushell, Jason Cheater, Judith Coke, Emmanuella Cole ...

Attempting to reconcile what he sees as Danton’s essentially humane nature with the Terror he helped to unleash, former Economist correspondent Lawday (Napoleon’s ...

D.W. Griffith has tossed two orphans onto the tempestuous sea of the French Revolution and uses the ride-to-the-rescue for a finale, with an orphan under the guillotine and 'Danton five miles away'.

A kaleidoscope of short, sharp shocks, George Buchner’s 1835 drama “Danton’s Death” remains almost alarmingly modern in terms of form. As it tears through the politics of the French Revolution, this ...

A review of Danton’s Death by Georg Büchner in a new version by Howard Brenton at the National Theatre in London, directed by Michael Grandage. Danton’s Death, the famed play by German writer Georg ...