“Italy had its renaissance, Germany its reformation, France had Voltaire”, the historian Will Durant once commented. Born François-Marie Arouet, Voltaire (1694-1778) was known in his lifetime as the ...

A Catholic church might seem a strange place to stage French author Voltaire’s vitriolically antinomian masterpiece “Candide.” But Theater2020 makes it work, thanks to larger-than-life performances ...

To this day, millions of people around the world continue to maintain the idea that everything is for the best and everything happens for a reason. However, what kind of merit does this saying ...

The Drama and Debating Society of Visakha Vidyalaya will present an adaptation of “Candide” this month. ‘Candide’ is a French satire by Voltaire which describes the journey of the namesake character, ...