This production of Volpone tries so hard to be funny that it almost never is. There’s one notable exception. In Ben Jonson’s 1606 script, a wealthy, childless man named Volpone pretends he’s dying and ...

Jesse Berger has been making a name for himself with daring, low-budget, emotionally direct productions of off-the-run Elizabethan and Jacobean classics like Edward II, The Witch of Edmonton, Women ...

This undated publicity photo released by David Gersten and Associates shows, from left, Stephen Spinella and Cameron Folmar, in a scene from Red Bull Theater’s production of Ben Jonson’s classic ...

Where is virtue? Where is good? Why don’t people behave as they should?” The oh-so-sincere character who raises those perfectly reasonable questions in the new opera Volpone never does get an answer.

The task is simple: walk or die.

TYNGSBORO — The 1971 Mass. Open at Vesper Country Club was characterized by high rough and the complaints it caused. Charlie Volpone, who was then a 34-year pro from Nashawtuc Country Club trying to ...