There's a message in 'La Bete' pertaining to the corruption of art in a populist culture and it certainly resonates today. But even more resonant is the mastery of craft on such vivid display. The fly ...

The sold out London hit is now the toast of Broadway! The showdown between high and low brow is on in Broadway’s newest smash comedy about two radically-different playwrights and the princess who pits ...

American playwright David Hirson's rollicking 1991 play, LA BÊTE, is a comic tour de force about Elomire (David Hyde Pierce), a high-minded classical dramatist who loves only the theater, and Valere ...

"La Bete" is a 1991 American play by David Hirson set in 17th century France, and besides being extremely funny, it has a lot to say about the dumbing down of art and entertainment. By Ray Bennett, ...

Banned intermittently over the years, the uncut version of Polish director Walerian Borowczyk’s 1975 erotic comedy “La Bete” finally makes the big screen, gleefully assaulting the line between ...

It happens all the time: Everything seems to be pumping along in an organization, and then some boob with bad ideas comes in and it’s all over. But I’ll bet it never happens in quite the same bizarre ...