Great films possess a unique power to evoke memories of iconic literature from centuries ago. Often unconsciously, certain ...

Quincy High School's drama program presents "The Women of Troy," the tragic retelling of the Trojan War as experience by ...

We tend to think of Greek tragedy as the earliest form of drama - the exact opposite of the oddly futuristic theatre world we inhabit now, in which actors and audiences around the world connect ...

Electra is one of the oldest existing plays in Western literature. Some version of it is attributed to each of ancient Greeks' towering tragedians: Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. Through the ...

The vast 12,000-seat amphitheatre at Epidaurus, built in the fourth century BC, is the best-preserved in all of Greece. It lies in a verdant valley in the southern Peloponnese and its architectural ...

Strong writing and blockbuster performances by stars Mark Strong and Lesley Manville electrify this modern take on Sophocles’ ...

Duane Foster and a gospel choir in a 2018 performance of "Antigone in Ferguson" at the Harlem Stage in New York City. (All Arts) Past and present collide in “Antigone in Ferguson,” created in response ...

Genesius Guild's next performance is “The Bacchae” by Euripides at 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday (and the following weekend) for free, at Lincoln Park Classic Theatre, 1120 40th St., Rock Island.

Ben is a writer who's obsessed with all things PlayStation, Pokemon, motorsport, and sci-fi. No relation to the Harry Potter villain. (Probably) Even though Santa Monica Studio has taken steps to ...

Polygnotus, the “Homer of painters,” transformed ancient Greek art with monumental murals that merged myth, history, and ...