‘The Three Musketeers’: Classic, Riveting, and Riotous

This swashbuckling adventure is produced by a Chicago theater and based off of a 2010 adaptation of the original novel by Alexandre Dumas
‘The Three Musketeers’: Classic, Riveting, and Riotous
(L–R) Xavier Lagunas, Jack Sharkey, and Boomer Lusink in "The Three Musketeers." Steven Townshend
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The word “classic” is often used to describe timeless works of art and literature. That term has never been as appropriate as it is in reference to “The Three Musketeers.” The novel, written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870), continues to excite audiences right into the 21st century.

It was made into films five times—in 1992, 1989, 1986, 1973, and 1948—adapted into TV shows, and made into cartoons. Today, “The Three Musketeers” is now in a wonderful production at The Edge Off-Broadway Theater in Chicago. The play has been produced by the Idle Muse Theatre Company, which is celebrating its 20th year of operation.

Betty Mohr
Betty Mohr
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As an arts writer and movie/theater/opera critic, Betty Mohr has been published in the Chicago Sun-Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Australian, The Dramatist, the SouthtownStar, the Post Tribune, The Herald News, The Globe and Mail in Toronto, and other publications.