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Erin Gann as Xerxes and Helen Carey as Atossa in the Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of Aeschylus' "The Persians," a new version by Ellen McLaughlin, directed by Ethan McSweeny. Photo by ...

Imagine a play by a contemporary American playwright examining the war in Afghanistan from the point of view of Taliban leaders grieving their losses. No luck? This superhuman leap of sympathetic ...

Reanimating classics is always a challenge, but some classics are more challenging than others. Aeschylus' "The Persians" would rank somewhere near the top of a list of the theater's most recalcitrant ...

Aesychlus' "Persians" gets a simultaneously avant-garde and classical treatment at the Getty Villa in Malibu By Myron Meisel Persians Still - H 2014 Essentially the ancient-world equivalent of a story ...

You could say that The Persians, which was written in 472 BC, was the first docudrama. Its author, Aeschylus, is best known as a playwright and poet -- but the only words on his tombstone describe him ...

GLOVER — Lost in the woods of Glover — gone with the weekend just past — is “The Persians,” a play by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus, based on a vast, 2,500-year-old calamity that Aeschylus ...

To write "The Persians," which opens Thursday at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley, Ellen McLaughlin spent six days. Impossible, right? Even the most efficient, insanely focused playwright couldn't knock ...

This is Anthony Byrnes Opening the Curtain on LA Theater for KCRW. Each year, when I make the pilgrimage to the Getty Villa for their annual theater production, it's hard not to contemplate theater's ...