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 ...

"What is gonna happen, when we can’t take it anymore?" Stumbling down the street drunk at 11.30am Effie is the kind of girl you avoid making eye contact with. You think you know her, but maybe you don ...

“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 ...

There's a key metaphor nestled near the midpoint of ...(Iphigenia), the audacious, iconoclastic new opera by Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding. A revisionary take on a canonical tale — mainly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In Parentheses and Lailou Productions present IPHIGENIA POINT BLANK, a ...

Euripides was never known for his sex jokes. The sober-minded tragedian of ancient Greece is typically associated with his realistic treatment of myth and his psychologically complex heroines. None of ...

Iphigenia “Effie” Planinc, of Chardon, Ohio, passed away on February 9, 2021 at her home. Effie was born March 29, 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio, to John and Stamatoula “Toula” Bymakos. She was the loving ...

“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 ...