Ryan Engle as Jason, left, and Nathan Howland, right, as Ajax the messenger, pose with Elizabeth Guarnieri as Medea. Medea’s foot on the chest of King Creon symbolizes the power play between the two.

If you’re wondering why a novelist would write a new version of one of the best-known stories in Greek mythology, the answer ...

Ancient sources describe the Clashing Rocks as a deadly passage navigated through prophecy and a test run using a dove, after which the rocks stop clashing. The film changes the mechanics and adds ...

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 ...

Jared Reed as Jason and Jennifer Summerfield as Medea in Hedgerow Theatre's production of "Medea." (Photo supplied by the production) Euripides lost the new-play festival in Greece 2,449 years ago – ...

It seems callous, even monstrous, to dub all of that "entertainment." Yet that's the only word that fits. Working from playwright Ben Powers' 2014 version of Euripides' Greek tragedy, director Jerry ...

To Sigmund Freud, the family hearth is a perilous space of hostility between parents and children. Seizing on the Greek myth of Oedipus, he claimed that patricide is every son’s latent wish. Freud’s ...

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