A lot hinges here on the heavy-lifting done by Cooke’s lead cast: an unsurprisingly commanding Sophie Okonedo as the vengeance-drunk Medea and an agile Ben Daniels, who slips into and out of the ...

It should have worked better. Classical Theatre’s season opener, Medea, has all the talent, tools and twists to make Euripides’ classical play something remarkable. There’s the crisp 95-minute runtime ...

This sharp modern take on Euripides’s Medea is the work of Rachel Cusk, a writer perhaps best known for her unsparingly candid memoirs. Aftermath, her account of her divorce, is saturated with ...

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3 Review Roundup: TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK) Opens On Broadway Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she's left her home and borne two sons in exile. But ...

It’s a curious feature of Euripides’ great revenge tragedy Medea that in a story so intimately tied to a woman’s sense of isolation in a foreign land, the omnipresent Greek Chorus is a group of ...

“Medea” ’s set is, at the start, a blank, forbidding white, on the stage floor and both sides of the extended proscenium. The effect is of a huge, three-dimensional whiteboard, waiting for a marker.

Medea has been a regular visitor to London in recent years. Helen McCrory took the role on at the National Theatre in 2014, Kate Fleetwood at the Almeida in 2015, and Marieke Heebink at the Barbican ...

Helen McCrory is on exceptional form as Medea, the most disturbing of Greek tragic heroines. The character tends to be portrayed as a she-devil, a murderous manipulator who’s wild with love and rage.

The popular singers who make good as dramatic actors are legion, but few opera singers have made the transition to movie acting successfully—not least, because the stylization of opera, unlike that of ...