In its earliest form, Greek theater only included one actor paired with a chorus, but over 150 years, plays began to involve more actors as well as architectural components.

Bruce DuBose, Undermain Theatre’s co-founder and producing artistic director, explains that the play is unique among the Greek tragedies as a production based on recent events of that time.

The Pliant Girls has little in common with Euripides' The Suppliant Women except both plays employ the Greek theatre convention, a chorus. The five females in this cast of characters are each more ...

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.

The McMurry University Department of Theatre is beginning their season of shows with the classic "Antigone" directed by professor Neena McClain. The show will be performed much like it was more ...

This simple exchange, written around 441 B.C., demonstrates how one character came to challenge the autocracy of another in early Greek theater, and how Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides nurtured ...

The show takes elements of classic Greek theater, such as a chorus that explains off-stage action, and brings it up-to-date in the form of a TV talk show.

The classic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and their travels to the underworld gets a modern retelling in the Lutcher Theater’s latest Broadway musical. Anais Mitchell’s “Hadestown ...