She supported the abolition of slavery, fought for equality between men and women, campaigned for the right of free union and divorce, and defended democracy ...

Early Modernist architects designed school buildings to create healthy environments for young students by offering easy physical and visual access to the outdoors, aided by large glazed expanses that ...

“This is not the way to start a comedy,” quips 18th-century playwright Olympe de Gouges, staring at the guillotine looming upstage. Or is it? In “The Revolutionists,” now onstage at CNY Playhouse, ...

Paris in 1793 was dominated by the bloody Reign of Terror. A mandate to place “terror on the order of the day” led to a ruthless purge. By the time the Reign of Terror reached its conclusion in July ...

Theatre UAB will present “The Revolutionists,” an irreverent comedy about four beautiful, badass women who lose their heads in 1790s Paris, from Feb. 26-March 2. This girl-powered play’s central ...

Lee Mikeska Gardner as Olympe de Gouges with Celeste Oliva as Marie Antoinette in "The Revolutionists." (Courtesy A.R. Sinclair Photography) The Reign of Terror is a ...

She fought to give women the right to divorce and campaigned on behalf of children born out of wedlock. But in late 18th century France, her radical thinking proved too much for her contemporaries in ...

A giant guillotine. An assassination plot. Comedy, companionship and sorrow. “The Revolutionists” had it all. The two-act play written by Lauren Gunderson ran last weekend at the Hal & Martha Hyer ...

Charlotte Corday is about to assassinate the cruelest man in Paris. But first, she needs a really good exit line. Marianne Angelle wants a pamphlet to expose the hypocrisy of “liberated” France ...