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 ...

Just as Eurydice and Orpheus prepare to begin their future together, tragedy strikes. In this week’s play “Eurydice,” playwright Sarah Ruhl puts the classic Greek myth in the perspective of a modern ...

The Ancient Greeks took their entertainment very seriously and used drama as a way of investigating the world they lived in, and what it meant to be human. The three genres of drama were comedy ...

Two concurrent London productions of Oedipus might seem like overkill, but they actually worked to demonstrate the ...

Simpson College’s Blank Performing Arts Center hosted a revamped production of the play “Medea” this past weekend. The ...

For its next production, Theatre TJC is going Greek with “Antigone,” a new play by TJC theatre professor and director Denise Weatherly-Green, based on Sophocles’ original work, written around 441 ...

Hadestown is London’s hottest new musical – after all, it is set in the depths of the underworld. Hadestown recently hit the West End at London’s Lyric Theatre, following a successful run at ...