Director Anne Bogart and SITI Company charge up Aaron Poochigian's balanced new translation in a graceful 90-minute production of Euripides' 'The Bacchae,' alive with ecstatic bacchanalia and gruesome violence.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Iphigenia Among the Taurians’ Adapted from Euripides
The text of this well-staged new adaptation strikes a smile-inducing, attention-grabbing, and surprisingly believable balance between literary authenticity – this is indeed Euripides' play in all its essentials – and contemporary informality and even snark.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Euripides’ ‘The Bacchae’ from the Faux-Real Theater Company
This production digs into the tribal roots of the ultimate cautionary tale from ancient Greece with just the collective animal energy called for.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘The Burial at Thebes’ by Seamus Heaney, a Version of ‘Antigone’ by Sophocles
First produced by Dublin's legendary Abbey Theatre 11 years ago, the Nobel Prize winner's play strips Sophocles' cautionary tale of honor and overreach to its dramatic core.
Read More »Theater/Dance Review (NYC): ‘Alcestis Ascending: A Rock Myth’
A bilingual Cuban/American production presents the Greek myth through vibrant theater and artful, earthy dance.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): The Bacchae by Euripides at the Secret Theatre
Smart staging and physical comedy make this an accessible if grisly piece of ancient Greek theater for a modern audience.
Read More »Interview: Edward Einhorn, Artistic Director of UTC61, on Directing Greek Drama
Mob rule, Euripides, and the Arab Spring in a new production of Iphigenia in Aulis at La Mama.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Iphigenia in Aulis
One of the most emotional plays in the canon of ancient Greek theater receives an artful production at La Mama.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Antigone/Progeny
A pairing of plays, one new and one ancient, points out the constants of the human condition.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Frogs – Who Needs Euripides?
What do you do when all the good playwrights are gone and the present ones are dim? Go straight to hell, boys.
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