“This is not the way to start a comedy,” quips 18th-century playwright Olympe de Gouges, staring at the guillotine looming upstage. Or is it? In “The Revolutionists,” now onstage at CNY Playhouse, ...

Pictured, left to right, The assassin Charlotte Corday (Katherine Hamilton), the playwright Olympe de Gouges (Gabriella Goldstein) and the spy Marianne Angelle (Kimberly Ridgeway) search for just the ...

Left to Right: Arika Thames (Marianne Angelle), Anna DiGiovanni (Olympe de Gouges), Fabiolla Da Silva (Marie-Antoinette), and Danielle Gallo (Charlotte Corday) in Prologue Theatre’s production of The ...

A giant guillotine. An assassination plot. Comedy, companionship and sorrow. “The Revolutionists” had it all. The two-act play written by Lauren Gunderson ran last weekend at the Hal & Martha Hyer ...

Would you be surprised if you were told that the most produced playwright in America is Lauren Gunderson? Who? One of her best works is Silent Sky, a dreamy homage to astronomer Henrietta Levitt, who ...

Olympe de Gouges (1748 –1793) was a French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her writings on women’s rights and the abolition of slavery. Macy’s connection to De Gouges goes far ...

It’s the French Revolution and four prominent women — playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, Haitian spy Marianne Angelle and Queen Marie Antoinette — find themselves holed up ...

The French Revolution, four women, and a guillotine — all on stage for the opening of Main Street Theater’s 2016-17 Season; what else could be it be but a comedy? But hysterical history is too glib to ...

Directed capably by Laura Gordon, Next Act's "The Revolutionists" is a pretty good production of a not very good play. "There’s a lot of pressure to write something profound these days." Lauren ...

Theatre UAB will present “The Revolutionists,” an irreverent comedy about four beautiful, badass women who lose their heads in 1790s Paris, from Feb. 26-March 2. This girl-powered play’s central ...

“We are addressing these really huge questions about revolution and violence and about bravery and courage,” said Carolyn Wright, co-director of “The Revolutionists, which opens Feb. 6 at the Maui ...

Lee Mikeska Gardner as Olympe de Gouges with Celeste Oliva as Marie Antoinette in "The Revolutionists." (Courtesy A.R. Sinclair Photography) The Reign of Terror is a ...