It has no stage, no seats, takes place in a labyrinth of oddly decorated rooms, and requires audience members to wear Venetian-style masks but gives ... of Eugène Ionesco's absurdist farce ...

So goes the excuse as easygoing provincial townsfolk spontaneously transform into the rampaging pachyderms of Eugene Ionesco’s seminal absurdist satire, “Rhinoceros.” In the easy surrender ...

Mary Myers, left, as Berenger and Momo Nakamura as Daisy in the Pointless Theatre production of Ionesco’s 1959 “Rhinoceros,” through April 24 at Universalist National Memorial Church.

“The Chairs,” at La MaMa, is the director Theodora Skipitares’s puppet theater response to Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist play.

T he premise of Eugene Ionesco's 1959 play Rhinoceros is simple: One morning in a small French town, a moony alcoholic named Bérenger discusses the vicissitudes of life with a pugnacious ...

When I was 9, I had a walk-on part in an amateur theater production of Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist 1959 masterpiece “Rhinocéros.” As the curtain went up, another boy and I ran on stage ...

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Eugène Ionesco’s 1959 absurdist play Rhinoceros has long been seen as an allegory for the rise of fascism, showing how people are gaslighted, coerced and coddled into putting up with a bizarre ...

Eugène Ionesco (born Eugen Ionescu, 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde ...