Lee Mikeska Gardner as Olympe de Gouges with Celeste Oliva as Marie Antoinette in "The Revolutionists." (Courtesy A.R. Sinclair Photography) The Reign of Terror is a ...

Pictured, left to right, The assassin Charlotte Corday (Katherine Hamilton), the playwright Olympe de Gouges (Gabriella Goldstein) and the spy Marianne Angelle (Kimberly Ridgeway) search for just the ...

Left to Right: Arika Thames (Marianne Angelle), Anna DiGiovanni (Olympe de Gouges), Fabiolla Da Silva (Marie-Antoinette), and Danielle Gallo (Charlotte Corday) in Prologue Theatre’s production of The ...

Olympe de Gouges is a name you might remember from your history classes as another casualty of the French Revolution’s bloody Reign of Terror. It’s names like ...

“This is not the way to start a comedy,” quips 18th-century playwright Olympe de Gouges, staring at the guillotine looming upstage. Or is it? In “The Revolutionists,” now onstage at CNY Playhouse, ...

The French social activist, feminist and playwright who fell out of favour with fellow revolutionaries and was executed at the guillotine. Show more She fought to give women the right to divorce and ...

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She fought to give women the right to divorce and campaigned on behalf of children born out of wedlock. But in late 18th century France, her radical thinking proved too much for her contemporaries in ...