Since Aeschylus’ trilogy “Oresteia” isn’t long enough, Robert Icke’s new update gives it a prequel. What is merely talked about in “Agamemnon,” the first play in the trilogy, is now played out on ...

If “The Oresteia” is a juicy saga of family revenge swelling into public justice, and also the only trilogy we have from ancient Greece, why is it so rarely staged? “People are afraid of them,” says ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Emilio Casillas, who adapted the three-part story of The Oresteia into a 90 ...

A never to be forgotten theatrical experience. A huge, moving, bloody saga, the original of all family dramas, Aeschylus' greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done? Part Godfather, ...

Giving Greek tragedy a modern spin is the Virtual Repertory Theatre Collective, which will present the trilogy "The Oresteia" this weekend via Zoom. The Virtual Repertory Theatre Collective was ...

Three years ago, Rogue Theater put on its first play in Chicago, a modern retelling of the life of St. Francis of Assisi played out on a bare stage without set or costumes, with a budget of $600.

Theatergoers aren’t exactly clamoring for multishow examinations of Greek classics. And that makes “Rogue’s Oresteia,” the umbrella title for Rogue Theater’s three-part cycle of plays, a bold choice ...

Imagine an Old Testament movie epic in which only the Genesis part is filmed by Cecil B. DeMille, Exodus goes to Alfred Hitchcock and Deuteronomy to Quentin Tarantino. The laws of Israel would still ...

Melvyn Bragg discusses the ‘Oresteia’, the first of the Classical tragedies that come out of fifth century Athens. It is a tale of homecoming, murder, bloody vengeance and the establishment of Law.