Solemn, somber, eloquent but removed from our reality — that's the way most theatergoers describe Greek tragedy. The gods rule the universe, and we are caught in their web. With their limited vision ...

A month full of extraordinary theatre productions is here as the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama brings five performances to the island. Until August 6, theatre companies from abroad ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Buntport’s “Electra Onion Eater” is smart, tight and witty, easily within the reach of people who’ve never studied Sophocles’ “Electra” and enormously ...

With all the one-person plays, improv comedy shows, and personal journeys on offer at this year’s fringe, it was refreshing to watch a show that hearkened back to the tradition of performing Greek ...

Electra is about a daughter who wants revenge for her father's murder. The picture depicts his severed head. (Photo BYU Arts) The Classical Greek Theatre Festival with Westminster College Theatre ...

British playwright Nick Payne's new version of the Greek tragedy "Electra," which is being staged by Washburn University Theatre, owes as much to neo-Freudian psychology as the 2,400-year-old script ...

Electra is one of the oldest existing plays in Western literature. Some version of it is attributed to each of ancient Greeks' towering tragedians: Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. Through the ...

Ancient Greek tragedy, when done right, wrings your withers and leaves you purged. Kristin Scott Thomas’s title performance in the Old Vic’s splashy new production of Electra has a few interesting ...

Natalie Abrahami and Carrie Cracknell, the Gate's outgoing artistic directors, have made quite a name for themselves and their venue. Nick Payne's urgent new version of Sophocles's Electra is another ...