The play is generally considered Ben Jonson's best comedy, deftly exposing human foible and foolishness to mockery and has continued to thrive in stage productions. Next on Stage BWW Awards Sign-up ...

Despite a smattering of baffling 17th-century slang, the RSC’s production of Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist at the Barbican is an enjoyable, high-energy comedy, says Matthew Partridge.

Nicholas Hytner's smartly updated production of "The Alchemist" -- the latest in the National Theater's Travelex £10 season -- is a giant con. And that's a compliment. It's hard to think of a ...

P.T. Barnum was right. Apparently, there really was a sucker born every minute, even 400 years ago. In the 1610 comedy “The Alchemist,” playwright Ben Jonson wrote about upper-class Londoners ...

Ben Jonson will forever live in Shakespeare’s shadow. The recent production of Jonson’s best-known work, The Alchemist, by the Royal Shakespeare Company, inadvertently demonstrates why. First ...