Discover how satire, humor, and societal critique shaped Western theater in this insightful overview of the ancient Greek ...

Based on a myth first told in Greece over 2,500 years ago, Hadestown, now playing in Sydney, is a modern retelling of the ...

Satyrs were creatures linked strongly with Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, pleasure, and theater. These party-loving, ...

That accolade belongs to a gyrating chorus ... from the Ancient World, but his inward looking method acting is not well suited to ritualistic staging that’s meant to evoke Greek religious ...

But, somehow, her little folk-rock adaptation of two ancient Greek love stories gradually ... assisted by an accordion-and-fiddle-wielding Greek chorus, the Fates. His is one of three voices ...

“Chi-Raq” was an adaptation of Aristophanes’ ancient Greek play “Lysistrata ... s Anne Thompson that Jackson was cast as the “Greek chorus” narrator “like in ‘Do the Right ...

Bodies creep into poses stolen from Greek vases. Then ... like he’s been dragged from cold storage and reanimated by an ancient spell. The Oscar-winning star is the uncanny centre of this ...

Larson manifests focus and commitment as the Greek heroine, but nonetheless joins ... The main invitation is auditory, the six-strong female chorus conceived as a gown-wearing, mic-wielding ...

Brie Larson tackles the title role in Daniel Fish’s sterile take on the classical tragedy Violence begets violence, vengeance more suffering: Greek tragedy ... is often. A chorus of women ...

It’s been a thing since at least the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan to read certain of the Greek classics with an ... modernist drama as to the mask-and-chorus formalities of the ancients.