*Ed. Note: Peter Bodo is on vacation until August 16th. In his place, we proudly present a series of guest commentary. *When I piped up a few days ago claiming to be a fairly knowledgeable Marat Safin ...

In 1793, Jacques Louis David, the official artist of the French Revolution, painted the Death of Marat as a tribute to his slain friend, the revolutionary propagandist Jean-Paul Marat, in the wake of ...

We didn't know that night that he'd be, for the rest of the decade, pro tennis' biggest puzzle. All we saw in Marat Safin then was the total package: TV handsome, fluent in English, Spanish and ...

The radical French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat died, famously, in a bathtub. He was soaking in one when his assassin, Charlotte Corday, plunged a kitchen knife into his chest in 1793. And he was ...

A man sits in a bath and bleeds to death. He holds a piece of paper in one hand and a quill in the other. It could be a “Roman death”: the noble suicide choosing death before dishonor. Yet the wound ...

The ensemble cast of “Marat/Sade” has the unique responsibility of playing characters that are playing characters themselves, from before audiences are seated until after they leave. (Craig Schwartz / ...