In considering his 1836 comic masterpiece of mistaken identity – in which Khlestakov, a hard-up visitor to a provincial backwater is taken to be an undercover government inspector and treated like a ...

Not everyone's knowledge of Russian literature was good enough to get the particular Pushkin pun that flies by in the first act of "The Government Inspector," but the appreciative audience Thursday ...

The Government Inspector is a 2005 television drama based on the life of Dr. David Kelly and the lead-up to the Iraq War in the United Kingdom. It was written and directed by Peter Kosminsky, and won ...

The UCSB Theater Department’s production of Jeffrey Hatcher’s adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector revels in its stylish chaos. The characters, local community leaders in a small, ...

The corrupt mayor of a Russian town, who is awaiting a visit from a dignitary, gives the royal treatment to a clerk that he mistakenly believes is “The Government Inspector” in Ukrainian playwright ...

At first Director Don Haefliger wasn’t sure if now is the time to restage “The Government Inspector.” Independent Players first produced the classic satire in March 2020, but the pandemic forced the ...