Fragments of two lost ancient Greek plays by playwright Euripides found in Egypt were remade into a play combining theater / ...

This Medea feels at one with its ancient origins, with Athens’ strict patriarchy and fractured psyches and desperate quests ...

The first plays were performed with just one actor (called a protagonist) and a chorus of people who helped him to tell the story. However, throughout the 5th century BC playwrights continued to ...

The London theatre scene was all abuzz in January 2024 when two different star-studded West End productions of the ancient Greek tragedy Oedipus were announced within minutes of each other.. The ...

Theatre in the ancient world: what you didn’t know about the Roman empire. This remarkable exhibition deals with an aspect of Roman culture that is relatively unfamiliar to most people.

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.

Seeing works by Sophocles and Aeschylus in their native land imparts indelible lessons about pain and memory. The cemetery in Sidiro, a small Greek village near the Turkish border, where about 200 ...