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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“We must call a halt to the revolution and begin the Republic!” says the French revolutionary Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles in Georg Büchner’s “Danton’s Death,” which will be performed on the Loeb ...