At the Salzburg Festival, a new adaptation of “The Oresteia” will put a classic story of war, democracy and revenge into a modern context. By David Belcher Staging “The Oresteia,” Aeschylus’s epic ...

Christos Loulis as King Xerxes in The Persians. Greek actress Lydia Koniordou directs and stars in The Persians. You could say that The Persians, which was written in 472 BC, was the first docudrama.

The New Works Play Lab aims to give graduate student-actors in the FSU/Asolo Conservatory experience with developing a new ...

The legendary Vermont-based political protest performance troupe Bread and Puppet Theater returns to Connecticut this weekend for two performances of Aeschylus’ war-themed Greek tragedy “The Persians” ...

The greatest ancient dramas were tragedies. One side of the tragic world view is given by Cassandra’s last words in Aeschylus’s famous triology, the Oresteia (the translation above is by Richard ...