Iphigenia at Aulis These are jittery times for the Greeks in Katie Mitchell's tremendous production of "Iphigenia at Aulis," which cracks open classical tragedy in much the same way that her wondrous ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some classical texts are all the better with reinterpretation. This isn’t one of them. Iphigenia 2.0, conceived by Charles Mee in 2007, sets the tragic characters of Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis in ...

“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 ...

In 2001, Long Wharf Theatre became the first major Connecticut theater to mount a work by Charles Mee, with Les Waters directing “Big Love,” an extravagant variation on “The Persian Maidens” by ...

In ancient Greece, the story of Iphigenia is one of murder, revenge and a fierce motherly love. When her husband, Agamemnon, sacrificed their daughter, Iphigenia, to gain favor with the goddess ...

Janet Malcolm’s “Iphigenia in Forest Hills” is everything you think you don’t want in a courtroom drama. Expanded from a New Yorker article about the 2009 joint murder trial of a woman in Queens and ...

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 ...

“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 ...