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 ...

Spike's ambitious scripted drama Tut explores Egypt in the 14th century B.C., following King Tutankhamun (Avan Jogia) on his rise to power amidst civil unrest. If you made it through that first ...

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 ...

In late April, scholars from all over the world came to William & Mary for a two-day conference on Greek and Roman theater and performance. Speakers presented papers on various aspects of Greek and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting social, political and economic crisis have had an impact on every feature of human society, including artistic and cultural life. The series Reading Greek ...

While Aristophanes’ “Frogs” follows Dionysus’ voyage into the underworld, the revival ultimately should have been left buried due to poor production design and lackluster implementation of subtitles.