PBS

The Origins of Theatre - The First Plays (continued)

The first plays were performed with just one actor (called a protagonist) and a chorus of people who helped him to tell the story. However, throughout the 5th century BC playwrights continued to ...
Yahoo

True Troupe switches up Classics in the Park series with Greek tragedy 'Antigone'

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHEYENNE — A Shakespearean-style Greek tragedy wouldn’t be the same without power-hungry tyrants and lots of death, and “Antigone” ...
The GW Hatchet

A senior thesis turns G Street Park into open-air Greek theater

Ryan Gilhuly did not want to just write his senior thesis on the transcendent comedy of ancient Greek theater. He wanted to ...
The Atlantic

Three Greek Plays

The most interesting single feature of her method of translation is her treatment of metre. The dialogue is put into iambic lines of varying lengths, normally of five feet. The choruses of two of the ...
Hartford Courant

‘Hurricane Diane’ turns an updated Greek god loose on New Jersey housewives at Hartford Stage

In Greek mythology, Dionysus is the god who oversees vegetables and fruit, particularly the making of wine from grapes, and thus is also connected to ecstatic partying. Dionsysus is also the god of ...
The Daily Free Press

Ancient Greeks met Greek life in student-written play “The Boys”

Empty beer bottles littered the ground, while the crowd’s playful jeering and loud laughter resembled that of an ancient Greek theater. This is no frat party, just an imitation — this is “The Boys.” ...
Houston Press

Generations of Rage in Electra at Classical Theatre

Agamemnon, commander of the Greek forces that invaded Troy, survived the 10 years of the Trojan War, only to come home and be murdered by his wife and her lover. An ironic death that begat a cycle of ...