Martin Andrucki, Charles A. Dana Professor of Theater, directs the Bates College theater department production of Alcestis, Euripides’ tragedy about a king, doomed to die, who offers up his wife in ...

Not since late December and its annual swath of A Christmas Carols invading the region have there been so many productions of a single play presented in single season. Shakespeare's A Midsummer ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. On Friday night, the University of Georgia Theatre welcomed attendants into its ...

Mortality: the inexorable reality of life and the unsettling theme of Critical Mass Performance Group’s movement-based and myth-inspired new theater piece, “Alcestis,” at Theatre @ Boston Court in ...

Between three humanities departments, the tragic story of a woman who gave her life for her husband is taking center stage — ancient Greek dramatist Euripides’ story of Alcestis. The play attempts to ...

What drove Ted Hughes to adapt Alcestis, the Euripides play in which a wife dies in order that her husband may live? The temptation is to see it as a deeply personal work hewn out of Hughes's ...

The ancient Greek myth about Alcestis and her self-sacrifice for her spouse has seen countless versions over the centuries, from Euripides and John Milton to Handel, Gluck and Thornton Wilder. It ...