Vice-Dean of Education and Senior Lecturer, School of Performing and Digital Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London The London theatre scene was all abuzz in January 2024 when two different ...

Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s “The Gospel at Colonus,” this year’s livelier-than-usual outdoor theater production at the Getty Villa, combines disparate ritual traditions. Ancient Greek tragedy is ...

Each summer, the Getty Villa in Los Angeles reenacts an ancient tradition, gathering an audience under the stars, in an amphitheater hewn into the side of a hill, to watch a drama unfold. This season, ...

How does a play written in the 5th century B.C. still get produced in 2010? A play that's 2,500 years old and has never really left our collective consciousness? A play that's so famous, Freud used it ...

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS OF SOPHOCLES. Music for Male Chorus and Orchestra. By JOHN KNOWLES PAINE. WE are glad to see so important a work placed within the reach of the public; since all who are in any ...

Four interpretations of the Greek myth have been produced in the German capital, all with resonances for our moment. By A.J. Goldmann BERLIN — “The city reeks with death in her streets,” the chorus ...