The International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama returns this summer with impressive, contemporary renditions of long-standing tales. Once again, top-tier theatre companies have been chosen to ...

As the sun sets over the Roman Theatre at Verulamium, audiences enjoying its latest summer season of productions will know that some 2,000 years previously, people were doing the same. But what is it ...

Soprano Lauren Snouffer, who plays the lead, talks about this colorful new production and the timeless themes that still ...

Image: Greek Theatre Players Chorus parts starred girls from the school, Greenall tells us, many of whom would dash from rehearsals to their exams still dressed in ancient Greek attire.

Speakers presented papers on various aspects of Greek and Roman theater, illuminating the multifaceted nature of ancient drama as performance, civic event, spectacle, and occasion for reception.

Photo from Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and Media In ancient Greece and Rome, an odeon was a “comparatively small theatre … in which musicians and orators performed and competed ...