From the malignant Iago to the murderous Clytemnestra, most literary figures feel personal passion. Trump’s anger seems more ...

Sophocles is suddenly everywhere on the city’s stages. In concurrent shows, Rami Malek is playing Oedipus and Brie Larson is ...

As Donald Trump has gained fame and power, his rage at opponents and appetite for vengeance appear to have sharpened. A ...

Rami Malek kicked off Greek week with an Oedipus that was a bit odd, but as another Oscar winner takes on another Sophoclean ...

Elektra feels like a work in progress, an early read-through in which the rough edges are yet to be smoothed. Even Brie ...

New Ghosts Theatre Company (NGTC) will present a return season of their 2020 production of Gary Owen’s IPHIGENIA IN SPLOTT at ...

It would be a shame should Barker choose to stop here, not only for her fans but for anyone who continues to be enthralled by ...

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” The words are Ecclesiastes 1:9 – among my ...

Stockard Channing also features in this London staging of Anne Carson's translation, directed by Daniel Fish, whose radical ...

The 80-year-old stars in the production of Elektra as Clytemnestra, while Larson plays the titular character. The play is an ...

We live in tragic times given over to cataclysmic events that require outsized emotions in return. That may be one reason to account for the uptick, therefore, in Greek drama, which includes not one ...

While Odysseus and Achilles fought for the same cause, they embody two different approaches to ancient Greek heroism.