It’s a curious feature of Euripides’ great revenge tragedy Medea that in a story so intimately tied to a woman’s sense of isolation in a foreign land, the omnipresent Greek Chorus is a group of ...

Caribbean landscapes and musical interludes are not typically associated with the monstrous Medea. However, in Medea Gosperia, Thee BLACK SWAN reimagines Euripides’ classic Greek myth through a fusion ...

NEW YORK — Though their deaths made their mother eternally infamous, little is known about the children Medea murdered. So give some credit to the writer and director Simon Stone’s otherwise ...

I’m not a fan of opera’s (and literature’s) madwoman trope—that fearsome and pathetic figure historically sprung from some fevered male brain. But Medea—based on Euripides’s version of the ancient ...

There. Now that we've got those two out of the way, let's turn to the delight that finds itself center stage at the McDonald Theatre for Nebraska Wesleyan University's production of Euripides' ...

NEW YORK — The woman who dreams of flying has made a prison of her life. Portrayed with an impassive mien and a wounded gaze by Sabina Zúñiga Varela, the heroine of Luis Alfaro’s spirited, mournful ...

They almost make a diptych, with the same hermetic acting space - this time white and open, not black and glassed in - an updating that manages to be both poetic and colloquial, tragic and funny (in ...

This Medea (Ruth D’Silva) is a Kurdish freedom fighter who’s come to England on a dodgy passport; working illegally as a cleaner, she meets Jason (Max Rinehart) – or Mohammed, to his Iraqi-immigrant ...

"Medea: Re-versed” is an idea whose time has come. Marrying a hundred words a minute of furious rapping and street beats with the grandeur and epic emotions of Greek tragedy makes perfect sense in ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Betrayal, lost love, and revenge are the themes that emerge in the recent Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School's ...