World Theatre Day celebrates the global impact of theatre, with Greece at its heart as the birthplace of Western drama. From ...
As Sondheim's final musical comes to the National Theatre, revisit the hit UK productions of shows such as *Follies*, *Gypsy* ...
Like many things we know about drama, the idea goes back to the ancient Greeks, whose playwrights used it to great effect, Aeschylus and Euripides among them. Euripides most memorably turned to ...
The temple of Hephaestus, as seen from the Ancient Agora, Athens, Greece. Credit ... was a major part of Greek life. Theater thrived, with tragedies and comedies performed in large amphitheaters.
Plato wrote his works using the Attic Greek dialect. Credit: Edgar Serrano, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY SA 2.0 Ancient Greek is the language that ... and the famous Athenian playwrights and orators, and ...
After a few years of lockdowns, closures, and smaller-than-ideal audiences, London’s theatre scene has really begun fighting ... and revenge – like all the good ancient Greek tragedies – and comes to ...
Like a painter’s palette of architectural styles, New Harmony’s historic district showcases Victorian, Federal, and Greek Revival buildings side ... The New Harmony Project gathers playwrights and ...
The Greek Ministry of Culture has announced that archaeologists have fully uncovered the ancient Greek theater of Lefkada, ...
New research is shedding light on the bouleuterion building that once stood in the ancient city of Teos, located in ...
In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.