Since Aeschylus’ trilogy “Oresteia” isn’t long enough, Robert Icke’s new update gives it a prequel. What is merely talked about in “Agamemnon,” the first play in the trilogy, is now played out on ...

A never to be forgotten theatrical experience. A huge, moving, bloody saga, the original of all family dramas, Aeschylus' greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done? Part Godfather, ...

Loizides’ previous productions, Bacchae and Troades, received warm welcomes wherever they were performed during their world tours in 2008 and 2009. The success of these productions has strengthened ...

If “The Oresteia” is a juicy saga of family revenge swelling into public justice, and also the only trilogy we have from ancient Greece, why is it so rarely staged? “People are afraid of them,” says ...

This year, the Westminster Theatre Season will include a Classical Greek Theatre Festival presentation of The Oresteia in their Dumke Student Theatre on the Westminster University campus February ...

It was a time when not only drama but democracy itself was born. Aeschylus was involved in the development of both. In his youth, he witnessed the fall of the last tyrant to rule ancient Athens and ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Anastasia Hille is riveting as Klytemnestra in Robert Icke’s production of “Oresteia” at the Park Avenue Armory. By Laura Collins-Hughes ...

Imagine an Old Testament movie epic in which only the Genesis part is filmed by Cecil B. DeMille, Exodus goes to Alfred Hitchcock and Deuteronomy to Quentin Tarantino. The laws of Israel would still ...

A fat lady does sing (more than once) toward the end, but that's hardly the only operatic aspect to Berkeley Rep's current "The Oresteia." The three-play Aeschylus cycle emerges as a two-evening epic ...

Melvyn Bragg discusses the ‘Oresteia’, the first of the Classical tragedies that come out of fifth century Athens. It is a tale of homecoming, murder, bloody vengeance and the establishment of Law.