If you’re not up on your Greek Mythology, and don’t know the tale of Medea, written by Greek playwright Euripides in 431 BC, ...

As her version of Euripides’ play opens, the author discusses her turn to drama, being bullied at school and the damage done to children when parents split up When the curtain goes up on Rachel Cusk’s ...

Perhaps the hottest ticket at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival this spring is a show with a 2,000-year-old story: "Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles" by OSF's resident playwright, Luis Alfaro. He's a ...

Medea, daughter of the Colchian King Aeetes, niece of Circe, and granddaughter of the Sun God Helios, is known for ...

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 ...

MEDEA: Tragedy. By Euripides. Directed by Deborah Warner. (Through Nov. 25. Abbey Theatre at Zellerbach Playhouse, UC Berkeley. 80 minutes. Tickets $36- $56. (510) 642-9988, www.calperfs.berkeley.edu) ...

(From L to R) Jim Lichtscheidl, Kate Guentzel and Kurt Kwan star in Pillsbury House Theatre's production of "The Children," a play inspired by the Greek tragedy "Medea." When it comes to staying ...

I love Medea. For me, the horror in this story is when you feel her terrible act was not just inevitable but understandable. Even logical. Yet that descent, that terrifying unravelling, is missing in ...

With modern media’s growing offerings of female-centered retellings of classical tales, the ancient Greek myth of vengeful sorceress Medea may not seem so appealing. Medea, who takes revenge on her ...

The Athenian poet Euripides was the last of the three great Greek tragedians (after Aeschylus and Sophocles) and also the least successful. Greek tragedies were performed competitively at religious ...