The D'Artagnan Romances Part 2: The Three Musketeers Twenty Years Later

See it if you would like to experience an evening of high adventure in a beautiful outdoor setting.

Don't see it if you are intolerant of all the improbable hooey that comes with any swashbuckling tale.

Also “The Three Musketeers Twenty Years Later,” is part 2 in a 4-part project of Hudson Warehouse to, once every summer, bring another episode of the full “D'Artagnan Romances” to life. The setting here is as important as any element of the production, a lovely natural outdoor theater with a broad stone stairway & even broader porch, behind the Soldiers’ & Sailors’ Monument in Riverside Park. If you choose the right night, nature’s special effects can be stunning. (And the competing manmade noise can also be formidable.) The material here is typically complicated swashbuckling hokum, but not without interest for history nerds. (King Charles I & Oliver Cromwell are characters.) And the performers are good, the 2 villains are snakes, & the swordplay—a whole gaggle of actors thrusting & parrying back & forth across the porch—had the kids of all ages squealing. I don’t know how well this would work indoors. But outside on a summer night it’s a lot of exhilarating fun.... Read more Read less