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 ...

Bathed only in the glow of a streetlight, a grieving mother wails over her son’s corpse; her cries mingle with the revving engine of a motorcycle on a nearby highway. A flash of lightning in the ...

Court Theatre, under the continuing leadership of Charles Newell, Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director, and Executive Director Angel Ysaguirre, continues its Theatre & Thought series with Euripides' ...

When Euripides envisaged the part of Dionysus, the god of good times in "The Bacchae," he was probably thinking of an actor with the pansexual charisma of Alan Cumming. When Euripides envisaged the ...

A power-hungry god tells his countrymen to worship him or he’ll make them regret it. They don’t. He does. That’ll do for a primer on Euripides‘ tragedy of Dionysus and “The Bacchae.” But the Playbill ...

Coochie coochie coo ... Tony Curran and Alan Cummings in The Bacchae. Photograph: Murdo Macleod What's The Bacchae about? It seems it depends on what paper you read. If you take the Daily Telegraph, ...

3 Video: Corey Stoll & Cecily Strong Unpack the Twists and Turns of WHAT HAPPENED WAS... The production will run through Sunday, August 30 with an official press opening on Monday, August 24. Bank of ...

As director Dmitry Troyanovsky says in his notes for this ancient play by Euripides, myths have to be retold and reinterpreted for every new generation. True enough—so if you go to the FSU/Asolo ...

Alan Cumming was obviously destined from the cradle to play Dionysus -- in corkscrew curls, girly makeup, and gold lame kilt, no less. Alan Cumming was obviously destined from the cradle to play ...