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 ...

What, then, is this book that acts as such a magnet to the modern imagination? Les Liaisons dangereuses was the first, and only novel, by Laclos, an army officer from the minor nobility. It caused an ...

Are Americans today better off than the aristocrats of pre-revolutionary France? Spandex has simplified couture, wigs no longer require powder and, thanks to social media and smartphones, epistolary ...

In Christopher Hampton’s “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” the eighteenth-century aristocrats are supposed to be speaking French but for our benefit communicate with each other in English. So why are the ...

The full company of Les Liaisons Dangereuses includes Janet McTeer as La Marquise de Merteuil and Liev Schreiber as Le Vicomte de Valmont, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen as Madame de Tourvel, Raffi ...

Stewart Evan Smith (Danceny) and Dan Whelton (Valmont) in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses." (Courtesy A.R. Sinclair Photography) A vicious game is played in “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” one in which sex is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

1 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2025: Guide to Performers, Route, and How to Watch Live Former lovers, La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont compete in games of seduction and revenge.

Audiences are no longer shocked by casual or even cruel sex, as they were in 1985, when Christopher Hampton’s romantic drama “Les Liaisons dangereuses” was debuted by The Royal Shakespeare Company.

What is “Les Liaisons Dangereuses”? A delicious slice of scandalous eroticism — pure sauce and spleen — or something more intricate? Josie Rourke leans towards the former, encouraging Janet McTeer and ...

Christopher Hampton's masterful adaptation of the classic "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" proves itself as relevant as ever in the hands of director Rufus Norris and a cast headlined by Laura Linney. By ...