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May 1, 2011

Perhaps a cautionary note should be inserted in the program for “The School for Lies,” David Ives’s delightful period comedy at the Classic Stage Company. When you emerge from this impish comic playwright’s glittering tribute to Molière, written entirely in verse, your head will be so dizzy with syncopated rhyme that you’ll almost expect to find yourself speaking and thinking in chiming couplets.

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New York Daily News
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Joe
Dziemianowicz

May 2, 2011

Plays often post pre-show warnings: Gunshots are fired. Herbal cigarettes are smoked. Strobe lights are used. Classic Stage Company’s "School for Lies" ought to post one, too: Finger food sails into the audience.

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Entertainment Weekly
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Aubry
D’Arminio

May 1, 2011

Frank (Hamish Linklater) loathes social niceties. He’ll say ”please” and ”thank you,” but he won’t tell you that your hair looks nice if it doesn’t. He was, as his name plainly states, born to be frank — and to detest anyone who isn’t.

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May 2, 2011

David Ives offers up a grand — and somewhat farcical — riff on Moliere’s The Mistanthrope in The School for Lies, now playing at Classic Stage Company in an utterly delightful production under the direction of Walter Bobbie.

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David
Sheward

May 1, 2011

Moliere, the brilliant author of "Tartuffe" and "The School for Wives," Gets a tasty, tart updating from David Ives.

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