Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Making sense of gender roles has never been easy. In fact, it could be conjectured that our ancestors behaved as they did as much out of blundering ...

After a couple of years of being corralled in a corner like an embarrassingly garrulous grand-uncle, the one impossible to get out of a conversation with, Bernard Shaw is back again at centre stage at ...

The Victorian spring continues at the Long Beach Playhouse with another play set in the prim-and-proper time period, laced with some daring humor. George Bernard Shaw’s “The Philanderer” opens at the ...

“The Philanderer” is George Bernard Shaw’s second play. It was written in 1893 and published in 1898 but wasn’t produced in London until 1902 because of a supposed licentiousness that is pretty much ...

Probably the single most startling fact about George Bernard Shaw’s early comedy The Philanderer (City Center Stage II)—just revived by the Pearl Theatre in a juicily stylish production by Gus ...

George Bernard Shaw’s satirical attack on the divorce laws (and the medical profession) rather outstays its welcome The Philanderer, written in 1893, is a prescient play. Bernard Shaw included it in ...

Rupert Young as The Philanderer. Photo by Richard Davenport. The Orange Tree breathes new life into George Bernard Shaw's rarely performed but characteristically witty second play The Philanderer.

NEW YORKNEW YORK — As the Victorian era drew to a close, older generations were confounded by modern ideas such as “equality” for women. George Bernard Shaw mocked these rapidly changing times in his ...

Here's a lesson for any playwright: George Bernard Shaw tossed the third act of an early play, "The Philanderer," on the advice of a leading actress. She told him it was "too radical" to be produced ...