The play takes the audience on a wild journey through the realms of gothic horror and melodrama. The actors delve into the enigmatic events surrounding the title character, Irma Vep. It is filled with ...

The utterly brilliant Jonathan Moscone is leaving the California Shakespeare Theater at the end of this, his 16th season as artistic director, to move across the Bay to the Yerba Buena Center; and ...

An American comedy classic of theatrical language and transformation, careening outrageously through Shakespeare, Victorian melodrama, Poe and Hitchcock, this high style quick-change act and ...

Returning to the scene of an uproarious crime, Everyman Theatre revives Charles Ludlam’s cross-dressing farce The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful, with several key players from the company’s hit ...

ARE ANYONE WHO COMES TO SEE THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP A PENNY DREADFUL IS IN FOR AN EXPERIENCE UNLIKE ANYTHING YOU’VE EVER SEEN. WE HOPE THAT THEY’LL LEAN INTO THE TO THE CRAZINESS BECAUSE WE ARE NOT ...

They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky. But are they worth a looky? They’ll close before Halloween, but the creepy-kooky-not-really-spooky comedies The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny ...

This weekend is the final run of Pauline Production's The Mystery of Irma Vep. This is a two-person comedy with both actors playing all characters. I make up one-half of the cast along with Equity ...

'The Mystery of Irma Vep' quiz When Arizona Theatre Company staged "Irma Vep" in 1999, we put this quiz together to see if readers could match up the famous lines and characters with the Charles ...

Grandstreet Theatre sends Halloween into quick-change, melodramatic over-drive, with Charles Ludlum's "The Mystery of Irma Vep," opening 8 p.m., Oct. 16. Two actors, 48 costume changes, a ...

Who knew we've been camping it up for so long? As early as 1909, the Oxford English Dictionary cited "camp" as "ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual; pertaining to ...