The Liar
Farce
by David Ives
adapted from the comedy by Pierre Corneille
June 12 – 28, 2025
Performances
All shows at 7:30 pm
Thursday, June 12
Friday, June 13
Saturday, June 14
Wednesday, June 18 (value night)
Thursday, June 19
Friday, June 20
Saturday, June 21
Wednesday, June 25 (value night)
Thursday, June 26
Friday, June 27
Saturday, June 28
THE LIAR (IVES) is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)
David Ives was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play for Venus In Fur, which has been produced all over the country and the world, and which Roman Polanski has turned into a film. Several of his shows have premiered at Primary Stages, including All In The Timing (winner of the Outer Critics Circle Playwriting Award), Don Juan In Chicago, Ancient History, and Mere Mortals. Other plays of David Ives: New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza (winner of the Hull-Warriner Award); The Liar (adapted from Corneille, and winner of the Charles MacArthur Award); The School for Lies (adapted from Molière’s The Misanthrope); The Heir Apparent (adapted from JF. Regnard); Is He Dead? (adapted from Mark Twain); and Polish Joke. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow in playwriting and lives in New York City.