Classic Stage Company in New York, New York
This production of the mortality play falls flat with diabolical sing-alongs, awful fight choreography and star Chris Noth wishing he were somewhere else
In Doctor Faustus at Classic Stage Company, Chris Noth wriggles between salvation and damnation, which will be interesting to those who thought that battle was lost once he signed on to Sex and the City 2. The conclusion of Marlowe’s tragedy sends his soul to eternal perdition, which is probably more painful than enduring Andrei Belgrader’s purposeless revival.
Faustus, an eminent scholar, has made himself master of every science and art, probably even clog dancing. Wearied with his accomplishments, he turns to demonology and he’s pretty good at that, too, soon conjuring up Mephistopheles (Zach Grenier), a genial guy in ruff and robe, who promises him absolute knowledge, absolute power and sex with dead hotties. The price: his immortal soul.
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