Viral concerns during pre-production mandated another remote rendering of this year's New York Euripides Summer Festival productions of Ion and Orestes. Governed by Apollo and his instrumental ...

There isn’t a problem, concern or crisis in our divisive current culture that doesn’t make its way into “Orestes 2.0.” Playwright Charles Mee wrote his adaptation of Euripides 408 B.C.E tragedy in ...

Sometimes, the magic’s in the mistakes. At one point during the Sept. 23 showing of Euripides’ “Orestes,” two actors found themselves unable to perform a necessary shoe removal, and the action stalled ...

We’ve all heard the expression, “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.” Holly Twyford knows that many theatergoers are wary of Greeks bearing plays. After all, we live in an era where many refuse to watch ...

In 1932, the musicologist Wilfrid Perrett reported to an audience at the Royal Musical Association in London the words of an unnamed professor of Greek with musical leanings: 'Nobody has ever made ...

When it comes to sheer gore, Greek tragedy has no rival. In Euripides' "Orestes" at Scena Theatre, we enter the bloody House of Atreus six days after the title character took a knife to his mother's ...

It makes sense that, in trying to birth a new online form of theatre during this pandemic, artists might look back at those who prototyped the old IRL form of theatre: the ancient Greeks. Orestes, a ...

PARIS — Long-separated siblings looking to avenge their father, an ancient dynasty under threat, savage murders and even a penis chopped off. No, this isn’t the final season of “Game of Thrones” but ...