Eddie Perfect wrote a Broadway smash in Beetlejuice, a critical hit (but financial disaster) about the leg-spinning legend, and would love to give another prominent Australian the song-and-dance ...

Is this world the best possible world? Some would agree that it is because God, as a perfect being, created it. However, some ...

Théâtre de Poche Montparnasse presents an adaptation of Voltaire's famous tale Candide ou l'Optimisme until March 30, 2025. Part social satire, part reflection on the human condition ...

Born Francois-Marie Arouet in 1694, this celebrated playwright, poet, essayist, and philosopher reinvented himself as simply “Voltaire” in 1718. Candide is his most enduring work—a raw, rollicking, ...

When an operetta is described as “brilliant” and “satirical,” many aficionados immediately point to Leonard Bernstein’s CANDIDE as Exhibit A. Inspired by Voltaire’s classic novella, the show is a fast ...

Based on Voltaire’s famous novella of the same name, Candide is a philosophical satire following an optimist’s journey through a series of adventures that open his eyes to the reality of the world ...

On Saturday, January 25, 2025, Leslie Voltaire, President pro tempore of the Transitional Council, was received in a private audience at the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican by His Holiness Pope ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Leslie Voltaire, the president of Haiti’s Transition Council, talks during an interview with the ...