In a similar way, “tragedy” originated onstage, as a dramatic form, before acquiring the more general meaning of a devastating or unfortunate situation. What we now think of as Greek tragedy ...

Korydallos prison inmates perform in the ancient Greek tragedy ‘Antigone’ for their fellow inmates, at the prison’s yard in Korydallos, Greece, June 11, 2024. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas ...

My late classics professor taught me that Ancient Greek tragedy dramatized different points of view, insisted on empathy, and warned against hubris. What would he have made of our current moment?

When the truth is finally spoken, the plague is over. Doerries’s first encounter with Greek tragedy was playing one of the children in “Medea.” (That’s the one where Medea kills her ...

Director Gabrielle Randle-Bent makes Greek tragedy look easy, which it most certainly isn’t. She finds a style here — which the entire, exceptional ensemble aligns to — that expresses an ...