“The Illusion” at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey

The Grand Illusion -- Fantasy and sorcery thrive in Tony Kushner's brilliant adaptation of Pierre Corneille's dazzling, dark comedy, in which a father enlists the help of a magician in a search for his long-lost, wayward son. This mystical journey of the human heart is directed by Festival veteran Paul Mullins, who gave us the unanimously acclaimed staging of Rhinoceros in 2000 and the deliciously funny Tartuffe last season. He returns to direct this witty and irreverent 17th-century French fable, reinvented by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Angels in America.