During the Belle Epoque (“the beautiful era”), French playwright Georges Feydeau became famous in the genre of the farce. While his many plays were later hailed as key precursors to the surrealist and ...

There is an old adage in the theater: Nothing says comedy like untranslatable French idiomatic expressions. OK, maybe that’s not really an adage, but in the case of “A Flea in Her Ear," it could be.

It’s a classic farce, it’s French, the male actors play women and the women play men, and it all resolves around sex. What more could you want? It’s all in “A Flea in Her Ear,” by Crowded Kitchen ...

Amicus productions have come up with A Flea in Her Ear that tickles the funny bone. Written by the master of the French sex farce, George Feydeau, and first staged in 1907, the story is a bit of fluff ...