
Fortune's Fool
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Ivan Turgenev’s classic Russian comedy-drama 'Fortune's Fool' received a magnificent, star-powered Broadway premiere at the Music Box Theatre in 2002, running for an accomplished 127 performances and sweeping multiple major Tony Awards. Adapted by Mike Poulton, the elegant drawing-room narrative unfolds inside a wealthy country estate, tracking Kuzovkin, an impoverished, gently eccentric nobleman forced to live as a humiliated family hanger-on, who collapses into crisis during a high-stakes dinner party, launching an explosive verbal trial that unpeels a devastating family secret. Directed by Arthur Penn, the production starred Alan Bates and Frank Langella in Tony-winning turns.

