Alley Theatre Puts Together a Sleek Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code is one of the bestselling books of all time, so successful that Hollywood brought it to the big screen with A-lister Tom Hanks. If you’ve read it, or seen the movie, you probably wouldn’t think a stage adaptation inevitable, but that’s what Rachel Wagsstaff and Duncan Abel did, adapting it as a play that you can catch now over at the Alley Theatre.

Based on its enduring popularity, there’s clearly something in there that resonates with folks. The question is, how well does that something translate to the stage?

Our not quite intrepid hero here is Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbologist in Paris for a conference. He is, unexpectedly, called to the Louvre, where a detective, Bezu Fache, shows him the body of curator Jacques Saunière, shot dead and lying starfi