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Elizabeth Baron plays all the characters in LaLa Theater’s new version of “Agamemnon,” Aeschylus’ story of a Greek king poisoned by his own fateful decision. Baron doesn’t inhabit the eight characters ...

Sophocles specialized in tense but humanistic dramas of passionate individuals trapped in impossible paradoxes. Euripides was a maverick and an iconoclast who loved upending his audience’s mythic ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Clytemnestra and Aegisthus ruled Argos while Agamemnon was at Troy, where the war ...

Yesterday afternoon Professor H. W. Smyth '78 of the Greek Department, who is one of the three professors in charge of the Greek Play, gave a lecture on "The Agamemnon of Aeschylus." After sketching ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Historically, English adaptations of Aeschylus' "Agamemnon" have rendered its ...

Aeschylus would appreciate the irony. His ancient Greek tragedy “Agamemnon,” the story of a disastrous war in the Middle East, now plays at the Getty Villa, a palace of classical culture funded by an ...

WHEN IT comes to pursuing the bad guys, few actors move mountains like Tyne Daly. For years on television she huffed and puffed after crooks as a New York City cop on “Cagney & Lacey.” More recently, ...

The article in the title is telling: This is not the Oresteia, the Aeschylus trilogy of plays that detail domino murders in the House of Atreus, a family "glued to ruin." Instead, translator Anne ...