“Blood!” says dancer Gabrielle Lamb, showing us her fangs and widening her eyes to prove she is crazy. As Agave, in a modern-dance version of “The Bacchae,” Lamb announces that she thirsts for ...

Alan Cumming was obviously destined from the cradle to play Dionysus -- in corkscrew curls, girly makeup, and gold lame kilt, no less. Alan Cumming was obviously destined from the cradle to play ...

Glowing beneath blue light swirling with stars and moons, giggling figures flitted across the stage in front of a mountainous backdrop inlaid with cliffs and caves. The scene greeted audiences shortly ...

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A power-hungry god tells his countrymen to worship him or he’ll make them regret it. They don’t. He does. That’ll do for a primer on Euripides‘ tragedy of Dionysus and “The Bacchae.” But the Playbill ...

The press release for Joanne Akalaitis' production of Euripides' tragedy, "The Bacchae," says it's about "what happens when a government attempts to outlaw desire." Well, to paraphrase Alan Jay Lerner ...

It’s a manifesto, how can it not be. For her first production as the first female Director of the National Theatre, and first of colour, Indhu Rubasingham throws open the doors of the Olivier with an ...

When Euripides envisaged the part of Dionysus, the god of good times in "The Bacchae," he was probably thinking of an actor with the pansexual charisma of Alan Cumming. When Euripides envisaged the ...

There are open captions throughout this video in white text at the bottom of the screen. The video starts with a student, Dan Souza - an actor in the play beat boxing on-screen in Spingold theatre. He ...

As director Dmitry Troyanovsky says in his notes for this ancient play by Euripides, myths have to be retold and reinterpreted for every new generation. True enough—so if you go to the FSU/Asolo ...