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 ...

Guillotinée sous la Terreur et promptement chassée de la mémoire de la Révolution française, puis qualifiée par l’historien Jules Michelet de « tricoteuse » et d’« hystérique », Olympe de Gouges (1748 ...

“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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Le cinéma Jean-Claude Carrière de Bédarieux travaille avec l’Agence Occitane Film, qui soutient le cinéma, les tournages et les professionnels du secteur. À ce titre, la projection du film Olympe, une ...

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 ...

Julie Gayet rend hommage à Olympe de Gouges, cette figure longtemps méconnue de la Révolution, qu’elle incarne avec panache dans un biopic diffusé sur France 2. Paris, le 26 juillet dernier, près du ...

La participation active des femmes durant la Révolution, aux côtés de nombreux hommes, est aujourd’hui reconnue. Contre Marat, et surtout contre Robespierre, se dresse Olympe de Gouges. Elle gagne ...