The famous book reviewer Orville Prescott begins his review of “Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn, Told by a Friend,” with the following sentence: “Strange indeed are ...

Any production of “Dr. Faustus” faces two major challenges. First, it is written in Elizabethan blank verse. And second, it’s not written by William Shakespeare. Well, you can throw any reservations ...

Faustus is a brilliant academic whose destructive thirst for knowledge leads him down a path to damnation when he sells his soul to Lucifer. From the splendour of Emperor Charles V’s court to the ...