The Shakespeare Theater’s offering is “The Oedipus Plays,” a single-evening adaptation of Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex,” “Oedipus at Colonus” and “Antigone.” Arena has mounted “Agamemnon and His Daughters, ...

In Aeschylus’ play “Agamemnon,” the titular king’s homecoming from the Trojan War is marked by his vengeful wife Clytemnestra, who offers him a red carpet on which to walk. “Now my beloved, step down ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. It is ten years to the day and the Trojan War has finally ended. The ...

In 2014 translator Nicholas Rudall and director Charles Newell gave us their canny and powerful version of Iphigenia in Aulis, Euripides’s look at how, step by excruciating step, Mycenaean king ...

Many Royal Navy ships throughout history have been named after figures and creatures from ancient Greek mythology. The current vessel is the sixth to bear the name “Agamemnon.” King Charles III, the ...

The story behind the work is that Mycenaean King Agamemnon offended the goddess Artemis. She retaliated by stopping the winds in the Athenian harbor and stranding the Greek navy on its way to fight at ...