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 ...

Greek fire was the mysterious weapon used by the Byzantines to destroy enemies and prospective invaders, keeping the Empire strong.

The career of the Hollywood star and style icon came to a tragic end in Australia. Fifty years on, a showbiz insider recalls ...

The Quad Cities’ Genesius Guild theater opens its 69th season of free theater with the classic Greek tragedy “Oedipus Rex” this weekend. Performances are June 7, 8, 14, and 15 at ...

Both 20th century plays will take place in the Lyttelton Theatre, and focus on dysfunctional ... planning a rap adaptation of the iconic Greek tragedy. Other projects focusing primarily on ...

My late classics professor taught me that Ancient Greek tragedy dramatized different points ... will be performed in New York at Signature Theatre next month. A dear mentor of mine, the classics ...

This starry casting guaranteed publicity and early ticket sales; but alas, these two Greek tragedies have "never looked so bonkers – or less tragic". Sporting a buzz-cut and a punk T-shirt ...

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 ...

The show takes elements of classic Greek theater, such as a chorus that explains ... so they had a hard transition into tragedy because they're accustomed to an immediate audience response of ...

The Greeks took their theater seriously, and as time passed, more innovators continued to develop the art form. Tragedy, deriving from the Greek words for “goat” and “song,” dealt with ...

The story of Eurydice, a character in Greek mythology, draws parallels in the tragedy stakes with Shakespeare ... s currently playing at the Lyric Theatre (City AM gave the production two ...

is to make her UK stage debut next year in a Greek tragedy. The 34-year-old will star in Elektra, an adaptation of Sophocles’ play which has been translated by poet Anne Carson. Larson described ...