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

Sudden blackouts blind the audience, but set design is the most interesting thing about this unbalanced production of the ...

After the expansiveness of Oedipus at the Old Vic, complete with dancing chorus, this version of Sophocles’s Elektra specialises in stripped back starkness – and comes with a singing chorus in true ...

The plot itself should be complex ... There is also no real unity of place in Greek tragedy, with the chorus often transporting the audience to different locations to fill in mythic backstories ...

The star-crossed lovers captured in these Gothic romance books will give you a new reason to hate Valentine’s Day.

Killing a family member is considered to be one of the worst sins in Greek tragedy, hence the particular ... The major points of the plot are the same as in Sophocles’ Electra, but there are ...

Many in the technology industry are frantically rewriting the plot in order to introduce deus ex machina in order to save ...

In 1997, for example, Vivian Gornick wrote that love was no longer the primary narrative conflict of contemporary literature.

Academy Award winner Rami Malek and Olivier Award winer Indira Varma star in a new production of Oedipus at the Old Vic, and ...

When does a crush begin to feel like love? This is hard to answer. How can we define that emotion well enough to demarcate ...

Danish-Palestinian director Mahdi Fleifel blends slick stylistics with gritty realism in his empathetic portrait of two hustling refugee cousins searching for a way out of Athens.

Three short adventures play out in three wildly different, wonderfully specific settings — but they all deal on some level ...