NEW YORKNEW YORK — Greed that overreaches and causes its own undoing is the primary target of Ben Jonson’s 1606 satire, “Volpone.” Considering the ongoing global financial crisis, it’s clear that ...

This production of Volpone tries so hard to be funny that it almost never is. There’s one notable exception. In Ben Jonson’s 1606 script, a wealthy, childless man named Volpone pretends he’s dying and ...

The title character of Ben Jonson’s satire on materialism is a vulgar Venetian whose craving for applause betrays his insecurity. The play may date from 1606, but Sir Trevor Nunn’s lively production ...

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The Honey Pot is yet another modern-day version of Ben Jonson’s classic, Volpone. Written in 1606, the Elizabethan comedy chronicles the rise and fall of a wily miser who pretends to be dying in order ...

On Volpone's opening night anniversary, Tangle is launching the playtext of Volpone as adapted by Artistic Director Anna Coombs; and Amina Kadeya EP, a special adaptation of the score originally ...

Neon lights, glass-panelled walls, information flashing along an LED strip, mobile phones, selfies - Ben Jonson’s 1606 play of greed and corruption is relocated to the 21st century. If the RSC were a ...

Avarice—the bottomless, Bernie Madoff kind—is the driving force behind Ben Jonson’s 1606 satire. Volpone (the waggish Stephen Spinella) worships his gold, and his callers, gunning for a place in his ...

Where is virtue? Where is good? Why don’t people behave as they should?” The oh-so-sincere character who raises those perfectly reasonable questions in the new opera Volpone never does get an answer.

This undated publicity photo released by David Gersten and Associates shows, from left, Stephen Spinella and Cameron Folmar, in a scene from Red Bull Theater’s production of Ben Jonson’s classic ...