Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As in Laclos's originating novel, Merteuil schemes, with Valmont's assistance, to use young Cécile de Volanges (Fantine Harduin) ...

If an author ever wanted to do research for a self-help text called "How to Destroy Lives and Wreck Relationships," he would find everything he needed in Christopher Hampton's tale of amoral bad seeds ...

Cécile Volanges is a role in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, a play that opened West End in 2026. In 1782, Choderlos de Laclos’ novel of sex, intrigue and betrayal in pre-revolutionary France scandalized ...

Who’d have thought that the most provocative battle of the sexes on Broadway this year would be a 31-year-old play based on an 18th-century French novel? At a time when gender politics loom as large ...

The sexual game-playing and schemes of the Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont feel so much flatter on the Broadway stage than on screen. Senior Editor and Writer The men’s britches are ...

Idle rich do the Devil’s work in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, turning innocents and believers into pliant lovers ripe for betrayal, all for their personal amusement. Cruelty and revenge are her driving ...

The characters and schemes in Christopher Hampton’s 1985 play “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” based on the novel written two centuries earlier by Choderlos de Laclos, aren’t easily viewed dispassionately, ...

Keeping in mind the strength of this year’s slate of programming, it brings me no pleasure to report that the final opener of the season, Dangerous Liaisons, is a head-scratcher on a number of levels: ...

Les Liaisons dangereuses, the 1782 novel of sexual intrigue by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, has become one of the most adapted literary classics in the two decades since it was reincarnated as a hit ...

Les Liaisons Dangereuses really is such a terrific play. Christopher Hampton's adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' novel is just so good - full of passion, intrigue, betrayal, loss and gender politics.

Any production of Les Liasions Dangeureuses is going to come with its fair share of sexy intrigue. Yet the Actors' Theater of Washington has staged the play with such near-pornographic levels of ...