A gorgeous ‘School for Lies’ with nonstop laughter, Constellation Theatre Company’s gorgeous production will leave you feeling like you’ve just had several glasses of champagne… Another of Célimène’s swains, the hapless Oronte (Jacob Yeh) flits around the stage like a demented beetle, going into raptures over his own poetry and pondering his own greatness. “Ah, Phyllis, Phyllis, Phyllis, You’re like some strange bacillus,” he intones ardently…

DC Theater Arts

The entire cast is excellent. Célimène’s cluster of suitors—Orante, Clitander, and Acaste (played by Jacob Yeh, Jamil Joseph, and Ryan Sellers respectively)—are perfectly awful. Though socially apt to a fault, all three actors do a lovely job of coming off completely tactless. 

MD Theatre Guide

The Constellation Theatre Company’s terrific current production is just as rollicking as the text, with a cast that ekes out an extra laugh out of the sharp verse, a sumptuously decorated set by Sarah Reed, of which the audience almost seems a part; and costumes (and hairstyles) that delight one after another.

Broadway World

David Ives has still got it! His 105 minute reduction of Molière’s Misanthrope (from 2017) is like clarified butter, crackling with wordplay in rhyme. Bonobo is word you usually find in crossword puzzles, not scripts, but it’s in there. I also scribbled down zipless tango. Delicious!

The physical stuff is there, too. Roses to rubbery Dylan Arredondo as Philinte and Jacob Yeh as the preposterous prig Oronte.

A Honey of an Anklet