The ancient Greek play Medea has enraptured readers, actors, and audience members for nearly 2,500 years. The classical playwright Euripides crafted a sharp-minded female character named Medea who ...
Three plays are wrapping up this weekend. Two finish on Sunday, BUFFALO QUICKIES at the Alleyway Theatre in the Theatre District and THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG at the Kavinoky Theatre on the D’Youville ...
“Medea: The Musical” had everything: A live, on-stage band striking chords; Lin-Manuel Miranda-style raps and melodies packed with witticisms; and a diverse cast taking center stage to produce a ...
It’s a curious feature of Euripides’ great revenge tragedy Medea that in a story so intimately tied to a woman’s sense of isolation in a foreign land, the omnipresent Greek Chorus is a group of ...
Internationally esteemed artist and writer Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh presents Scotland with a brand-new feminist, queer re-examining of the epic Greek tragedy, on the Òran Mór stage. The world ...
A lot hinges here on the heavy-lifting done by Cooke’s lead cast: an unsurprisingly commanding Sophie Okonedo as the vengeance-drunk Medea and an agile Ben Daniels, who slips into and out of the ...
GARRISON — Davis McCallum, director of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, took a big risk this year: For the first time in its 37-year history, the festival will not present one of its namesake’s ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Themes of incest and sexual abuse of minors loom large in this strikingly becalmed play named after a legendarily vengeful Greek mother. By Rhoda Feng ...