Zero Mostell and Michael Crawford in the 1966 film version As 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum' is revived at the National Theatre, writer Larry Gelbart reveals how he and Stephen ...

Roman dramas lifted stories and characters directly from Greek dramatists like Menander. In which Mike delves into the theater of ancient Rome. It wasn't all gladiators and Christian-killing, you know ...

A UCLA classics professor spikes her version of the Roman Plautus with shots of American culture Amy Richlin admits that the difficulties in translating Poenulus — a comedy likely written between 224 ...

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TheatrePlautus StraitSplendid, Valletta When a play based on Plautus’s classical, bawdy comedies is also reminiscent of the manner in which the remnants of Plautus’s work was preserved – in ...

Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254-184 BC) has been described by classicist and novelist Erich Segal as “the least admired and most imitated” of the ancient Greek and Roman dramatists. His plays, ...