Theater Review: David Ivess Sparkling, Hardened Rewrite of The Liar
The production of The Liar opening tonight at Classic Stage Company is billed as a play by David Ives. So what if Pierre Corneille wrote it first? That was in 1644, and in French, and anyway, Corneille lifted his version, called Le Menteur, from an even earlier Spanish work. Turnabout is fair play, especially when