Choderlos de Laclos

HAMLET New York Transfer and More Set for National Theatre 2026 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 9, 2025

The National Theatre has revealed further information about productions in 2026. The season will feature the New York transfer of Hamlet, and more! See the full season here.

Review: LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES at The Schoolhouse Theater
by Pia Haas - Sep 13, 2025

What did our critic think of LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES at The Schoolhouse Theater?

LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES and More Set for David Geffen School of Drama at Yale 2025�"26 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 11, 2025

David Geffen School of Drama at Yale has announced its 2025–26 season, featuring Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Utopia, and Is God Is. Running October 2025 through January 2026, the productions will be staged at Yale Rep, Iseman Theater, and University Theatre.

Review: LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES HEATS UP THE STAGE at Schoolhouse Theater
by Bruce Apar - Sep 9, 2025

In Ms. Rodgers and Mr. Zeller, this production has two superlative actors who attack their meaty roles with unvarnished relish, and the audience is the beneficiary of their talents.

LES MISÉRABLES & More Take Home 2025 Molière Awards
by Michael Major - May 13, 2025

The winners of the 2025 Molière Awards have been announced, featuring Ladislas Chollat's production of Les Misérables at Théâtre du Châtelet. See the full list of winners!

DANGEROUS LIAISONS Comes to New Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Apr 29, 2025

For decades, the sharp-tongued Marquess de Merteuil and rakish Viscount de Valmont have delighted in emotional manipulation and psychological warfare, with seemingly no regard for those who get swept up in their games.

Review: DANGEROUS LIAISONS at Kanata Theatre
by Courtney Castelino - Nov 7, 2024

Kanata Theatre opened its 56th season this week with Dangerous Liaisons, a steamy historical play set in pre-Revolutionary France, written by Christopher Hampton and directed here by Sarah Hegger. The play is based upon a novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, entitled Les Liaisons Dangereuses, published in 1782. Some audience members may also recall the 1988 film adaptation, featuring an all-star cast, including Glen Close, John Malkovich, and Michelle Pfeiffer. In Hampton’s play, former lovers, La Marquise de Merteuil (Megan LeMarquand) and Le Vicomte de Valmont (Stavros Sakiadis), conspire to conquest, seduce, and even assault individuals they desire or want to use as pawns for revenge against their foes. La Marquise and Le Vicompte treat everyone around them as disposable playthings, without realizing that actions invariably have consequences. With its themes of morality, lust, betrayal, and vengeance, Dangerous Liaisons is unusual in that its primary characters are less sympathetic than its secondary players. The audience feels more compassion for the innocent and naïve Cecile Volanges (Ava Gustine, in her acting debut), the sincerely smitten Presidente de Tourvel (the talented Lindsey Keene), and the foppish Chevalier Danceny (Thomas Jestin) as they are each used, abused, and secretly mocked by their tormentors disguised as concerned friends.

Cast and Creative Teams Set for Stratford Festival 2025
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 16, 2024

Stratford Festival has its preparations for 2025 in full swing. The preliminary casting for the 11 productions of the coming season has been revealed! Learn more about the 2025 company, stars and shows and see how to purchase tickets.

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, ANNIE and More Included in Stratford Festival 2025 Season Lineup
by Stephi Wild - Aug 28, 2024

Stratford Festival announced its 2025 season, featuring productions of HAMLET, THE TEMPEST, and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. The season will also include a new adaptation of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.

DANGEROUS LIAISONS Comes to Prague This Week
by Stephi Wild - May 1, 2023

In 75 letters, the two main protagonists, the cruel Marquise de Merteuil and the cynical Vicomte de Valmont – tough players, rivals and partners – unfurl a dangerous game with the feelings of their victims, abounding in malicious emotional manipulation and brazen seduction within the web of a variable love polygon.

CRUEL INTENTIONS Comes to Stage West Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Apr 21, 2023

A group of privileged and hormonal teens from an exclusive prep school on summer vacay--that’s a recipe for all kinds of scheming and trouble, in the cult-fave Cruel Intentions: the ‘90s Musical, which begins a 3-week run at Stage West on Thursday, May 4. The production will continue at Uptown Players starting June 1.

GODSPELL, CLUE, and More Set For Blackfriars 2023/24 Season
by Stephi Wild - Apr 5, 2023

Blackfriars Theatre has announced its 2023-2024 Season, commemorating 74 years of locally-produced theatre in downtown Rochester, NY! The 74th Season boasts a powerhouse line-up of entertaining and engaging stories, transporting audiences from pristine 18th century estates of French artistocrats to the seedy underground nightclubs of 1930s Germany.

Review: CRUEL INTENTIONS - THE 90S MUSICAL at The Garden Theatre
by Brett Cullum - Nov 19, 2022

It’s a rock musical featuring all of the naughty behavior of the original film and marries it to the “hits of the day” that were hot when it came out. Innuendos about “booty sex” merge with Backstreet Boys hits in a jukebox musical that revels in the absurdity of the original concept.

THE CHEVALIER Brings Life & Music Of 18th Century Black Composer To The Stage February 18-20
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 3, 2022

In partnership with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts and Concert Theater Works, Music of the Baroque presents the Midwest premiere of “The Chevalier,” a new concert theater work written and directed by Bill Barclay.

CRUEL INTENTIONS Announces Virtual Cast Watch Party with Janel Parrish & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 10, 2022

On-demand streaming access to CRUEL INTENTIONS: THE ‘90S MUSICAL, LIVE IN CONCERT has been extended by three weeks due to popular demand. There will be a virtual cast watch party on Sunday, January 16, at 8PM ET, offering fans the opportunity to interact with the cast and creatives, including star Janel Parrish.

CRUEL INTENTIONS: THE '90S MUSICAL, LIVE IN CONCERT Event Announced
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 29, 2021

Tony Award-winning producer Eva Price has announced a one-night-only event, CRUEL INTENTIONS: THE ‘90S MUSICAL, LIVE IN CONCERT will be presented on Sunday, December 19, 2021 for a live audience at The Bourbon Room in Los Angeles, and streamed worldwide on Stellar.

Music Of The Baroque Presents The Midwest Premiere Of THE CHEVALIER A Play With Music
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 9, 2021

In partnership with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts and Concert Theater Works, Music of the Baroque presents the Midwest premiere of “The Chevalier,” a new concert theater work written and directed by Bill Barclay.

American Lyric Theater Presents FROM ERASED TO SELF-EMPOWERED: CELEBRATING BIPOC OPERA COMPOSERS AND LIBRETTISTS
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 2, 2021

From April 6-10, American Lyric Theater (ALT) presents FROM ERASED TO SELF-EMPOWERED: CELEBRATING BIPOC OPERA COMPOSERS AND LIBRETTISTS, a three-part online seminar and roundtable, culminating in a free virtual concert performance April 10th at 7:30 pm et. The program is open to composers, librettists, educators and the general public. Advance registration is required.

Rochester City Ballet Launches Winter Digital Series
by Stephi Wild - Jan 15, 2021

Rochester City Ballet has announced its upcoming lineup of productions as part of its Winter Digital Series. The series kicks off today, Friday, January 15, with “Dangerous Liaisons.”

Broadway Rewind: Watch Full Scenes from LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES with Laura Linney!
by Nicole Rosky - Apr 8, 2020

Today we rewind to 2008 for the two-month Broadway run of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, starring Laura Linney, Ben Daniels, Kristine Nielsen, Mamie Gummer and Benjamin Walker. Adapted from the 1782 novel of the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, the play focuses on the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, rivals who use sex as a weapon of humiliation and degradation, all the while enjoying their cruel games. Their targets are the virtuous (and married) Madame de Tourvel and Cécile de Volanges, a young girl who has fallen in love with her music tutor, the Chevalier Danceny. In order to gain their trust, Merteuil and Valmont pretend to help the secret lovers so they can use them later in their own treacherous schemes.