What: Cleveland Public Theatre and Oberlin College present a modern-day retelling of "Iphigenia at Aulis," the Greek tragedy by Euripides. Written by Charles Mee, directed by Matthew Wright. When: ...

The opera's libretto is based on a play by Racine, which in turn comes from the ancient Greek story of Iphigenia, the young woman whose father, King Agamemnon, was ordered to sacrifice her to earn ...

The program for Court Theatre’s Iphigenia in Aulis features a chart tracing the house of Atreus through five generations, from Zeus on down to his three miserable great-great-great-grandchildren. And ...

“Nothing is what I’m try to keep and go forward with. Nothing. Thank you.” Those were Wayne Shorter's parting words to the audience at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica on Friday night after the ...

Most theaters would consider it a win to have just one moment in a show that's so viscerally arresting, it causes many to put hands over hearts and gasp. "Iphigenia at Aulis," the Euripidean tragedy ...

The straightforward production of “Iphigenia in Aulis” that opened Wednesday at the Getty Villa’s outdoor Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater might be retitled “Clytemnestra,” so enlivening is ...

Would you kill your own daughter as a sacrifice to the gods? Of course not. Civilization has evolved from the fifth century before Christ — an Athenian era when those famous experiments in democracy ...

A cruel sense of honor. Betrayal and human sacrifice. And a combined choir of 40 voices. Ten Thousand Things Theater kicks off its new season with an elemental, music-infused re-telling of "Iphigenia ...

Like the Shakespeare Theatre's "Oedipus Plays," Arena Stage's "Agamemnon and His Daughters" consolidates several Greek dramas to tell the whole saga of an ill-fated family tree. Director Michael ...

Movie blogger Jeffrey Wells counts 12 films about America’s entanglements in the Middle East coming down the pipe this year. It’ll be some feat if even one of them matches the urgency, power and ...