Nowadays, few people know that Hermione is a character in Homer's Odyssey. But what is her significance and role in Greek mythology?
Been to the grocery store lately? Seen another human being in the last week? If so, you have either personally seen the upwardly mobile price of eggs or listened to someone complaining about it. The ...
We live in tragic times given over to cataclysmic events that require outsized emotions in return. That may be one reason to account for the uptick, therefore, in Greek drama, which includes not one ...
A loose adaptation of the Aeschylus’ trilogy in a contemporary modern take by British playwright Robert Icke, a monumental, ...
Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...
From the malignant Iago to the murderous Clytemnestra, most literary figures feel personal passion. Trump’s anger seems more ...
Sophocles is suddenly everywhere on the city’s stages. In concurrent shows, Rami Malek is playing Oedipus and Brie Larson is ...
Elektra feels like a work in progress, an early read-through in which the rough edges are yet to be smoothed. Even Brie ...
Stockard Channing also features in this London staging of Anne Carson's translation, directed by Daniel Fish, whose radical ...
Led by Oscar-winning Hollywood starlet Brie Larson, it's a snarling, punk travesty of Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy ...
Stockard ChanningAlan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty Images The 80-year-old stars in the production of Elektra as ...
New Ghosts Theatre Company (NGTC) will present a return season of their 2020 production of Gary Owen’s IPHIGENIA IN SPLOTT at ...