After Simone Biles ignited controversy with her decision to pull out of much of the Olympic Games, fellow American gymnast Suni Lee extinguished some of the rhetorical fires by taking gold in the ...

Love and war with Achilles, Hector, and Helen of Troy in a hot new telling of Homer’s epic “The Iliad.” Scene from Book XXIV of the Iliad: Hector's corpse brought back to Troy (detail). Roman ...

Much in-demand director Lisa Peterson doesn't shy away from daunting projects. Her most recent show at Berkeley Repertory Theatre was a potent Brecht's "Mother Courage" in 2006. A year later she was ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Writer-director Lisa Peterson and writer-actor Denis O’ Hare have chosen well in ...

Homer’s The Iliad is one of the foundational stories of European civilisation. The Iliad is a long poem – an epic – thought to have first been put down in writing in the eighth century BC, though the ...