In the VCU Department of Theatre’s production of Wole Soyinka’s The Bacchae, we confront the unyielding scars of colonialism.

A cross-program collaboration of talented Mercer County Community College students will be on full display with theater and dance interpretations of a classic Greek tragedy, when they present "The ...

Glowing beneath blue light swirling with stars and moons, giggling figures flitted across the stage in front of a mountainous backdrop inlaid with cliffs and caves. The scene greeted audiences shortly ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BRATTLEBORO — Vermont Theatre Company is producing a cozy, intimate Greek tragedy for its winter production this year. "The Bacchae by Euripides" will ...

Rule 1: Don't peep at bacchants. Anthony Mackie, center, and the Public Theater's Central Park cast. It’s really all Winckelmann’s fault. Here we sit, nearly a quarter-millennium after the ...

Euripides’ classic Bacchae narrates the Greek myth of King Pentheus of Thebes, and Agave, his mother and leader of the Bacchae, a group of women who live freely on a mountainside. Under the influence ...

The first production from every new director of the National Theatre is an event – a sign of which way the wind might blow. As Indhu Rubasingham unveiled Bacchae, most of her living predecessors were ...