Continuing its summer programme is the 2025 edition of the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama. Following its season premiere in early July, the next production arrives on Friday and ...

Mixing Greek drama with Elvis Presley’s greatest hits, “Oedipus the King, Mama!” took the stage this month as a playful collision of ancient tragedy and rock ‘n’ roll spectacle. The Getty Villa Museum ...

A summer of ancient Greek theatre is happening once again as the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama returns for its 27 th edition. Four productions will be presented this year at the ...

FULLERTON – Fullerton Union High School Academy of the Arts presents a rip-roaring race through Ancient Greece with the comedy, “The Iliad, the Odyssey, and All of Greek Mythology in 99 Minutes or ...

Kenyon College’s auditorium resounded with the booming voices of tragic heroes and the sing-song prayer of ancient narrators. The epic conjured up images of panic-stricken people, grieving loss in a ...

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 ...

Director of Medea Leila Henriques reveals how she brought ancient Greek tragedy into contemporary Johannesburg.

In his speech last night at the Union, Basil Dean, the visiting English theatrical producer, touched briefly on the constantly recurring cycles of the drama; he explained the new movement, especially ...

At the beginning of this year, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras compared the contemporary fate of cash-strapped Greece to Sophocles's tragedy Antigone, written in Athens over 2,400 years ago. In ...

EPIDAURUS, Greece (Reuters) - On a stiflingly hot summer night, the ancient Greek amphitheatre of Epidaurus is packed to capacity for a performance of a 2,400-year-old play by Aristophanes -- ...