Laconic Greek, the dialect once spoken by the ancient Spartans, is one of the most fascinating examples of linguistic endurance. Despite centuries of historical upheavals, conquests, and the dominance ...

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 ...

Ancient Greek trireme warships, which had three banks of oarsmen, were so effective that they enabled the rise of Athens as a ...

Elizabeth Banks thinks her new murder-mystery show “The Better Sister” has a few things in common with Shakespeare. “I felt ...

Stephen Still, a lefthander, had one of the best performances of his two-year professional career in Tri-City's 8-1 Frontier ...

A scene from 'Elecktra'At the Mirror Studio (5th floor) in Poblacion this weekend, there’s an interesting adaptation of ...

For example, the 1913 premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite ... place as the heartbeat of a shared cultural and existential experience. Nietzsche viewed Greek tragedy not merely as an art form but as ...

Take Greek mythology, for example: those stories are timeless because ... then you must believe all the mechanics of tragedy that Mike is about to lay on you. This week, we're looking at ...

Led by Oscar-winning Hollywood starlet Brie Larson (she of the 2015 film Room and Apple TV+’s Lessons In Chemistry), it’s a snarling, punk travesty of Sophocles’ ancient Greek tragedy ...

But how has drama evolved from the days of Greek mythology and ritual to modern ... and conflicts carried out with greater weight. For example, consider the gut-wrenching “Manchester by the ...

Israel’s ongoing struggle with Hamas and Hezbollah provides a stark example of this tragic ... In the plays of the ancient Greek dramatists, tragedy often emerges from the clash between ...