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 ...

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 ...

Imago Theatre’s stage from its production of No Exit is back in action this season, but not for No Exit. Instead, Imago is producing Medea on the famously high-concept stage, a square platform ...

Medea, Greek tragedy’s wronged wife turned homicidal avenger, is currently living as a seamstress in Boyle Heights. An immigrant from Mexico living here illegally, she is having trouble adapting to ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Can a woman be driven so over the edge that she’d do the unthinkable? That question has hovered over the protagonist of Euripides’ “Medea” for millennia — and it gets a fresh and stylized update in ...

The £2,000 prize for the best arts journalism essay in 2014 went to a powerful and insightful review of the National’s Medea, starring Helen McCrory as the murderous mother of Greek mythology One long ...

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) ...

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 ...

It wasn't as if Leonard Bernstein was looking for work. By 1953, at the age of 35, Bernstein had already created two Broadway hits and had been on top of the conducting game since his last-minute ...