Hobson, adapted from a once-popular play by Harold Brighouse (1915) is a boulevard farce satirizing a father’s complete control over his family of daughters and their fight for women’s emancipation.

It’s a tale as old as time. Woman finds a life interest. Woman gets questioned by her father. Woman conquers all, overcoming gender stereotypes, hierarchy and class warfare to prove that anything is ...

LONDON — Actor Prunella Scales, best known as acid-tongued Sybil Fawlty in the classic British sitcom “Fawlty Towers,” has died, her children said Tuesday. She was 93 and had dementia. Scales’ sons, ...