Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BRATTLEBORO — Vermont Theatre Company aims to immerse audiences in ancient Greece and Dionysian culture when "The Bacchae" is performed at 118 Elliot ...

This “Bacchae” is dynamic and accessible, sometimes very accessible, as when Dionysus gifts a patron with a glass of wine. “This is straight from Joe Melillo’s hands,” the god says, name-checking ...

Glowing beneath blue light swirling with stars and moons, giggling figures flitted across the stage in front of a mountainous backdrop inlaid with cliffs and caves. The scene greeted audiences shortly ...

On Oct. 23, Duke Players opened their fall show “The Bacchae,” directed by senior JR Cassidy. This production, like many others of Duke Players, took place in Brody Theater, a theatre that perfectly ...

A power-hungry god tells his countrymen to worship him or he’ll make them regret it. They don’t. He does. That’ll do for a primer on Euripides‘ tragedy of Dionysus and “The Bacchae.” But the Playbill ...

Euripides’ classic Bacchae narrates the Greek myth of King Pentheus of Thebes, and Agave, his mother and leader of the Bacchae, a group of women who live freely on a mountainside. Under the influence ...

Can art be a salve in a world that seems to careen from crisis to existential crisis? Theatrical director Anne Bogart has considered that notion. "I don't think that our job as artists is to save" the ...

The Bacchae is translated by Aaron Poochigian and directed by Anne Bogart. The production is created and performed by SITI company. Considered to be one of Euripides’ greatest works, The Bacchae is a ...

“The Bacchae” is one of Euripides’ most enduringly resonant tragedies, centered on the misfortunes of the house of Cadmus that flow from its denial of the god Dionysus. The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic ...