Declarations of undying affection, comparisons to a summer’s day? Who needs ‘em! Our writers recall the offbeat songs that capture their hearts ...

Nima Taleghani’s debut play brings a raucous Greek chorus to the Olivier theatre, while Judi Dench has an enchanting Twelfth Night reunion ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Euripides' great tragedy, which was first performed in Athens in 405 BC when the Athenians were on the point of defeat and humiliation in a long war with Sparta. The ...

These figures stood in stark contrast to those the visitors had seen in the exquisite painting of a Dionysian initiation at a recent party in an opulent seaside villa. Holding a wine glass in one hand ...

Something is very wrong in the city of Thebes. You can sense it the second Dionysus (Jonathan Groff) changes his pants. In the split-second you catch sight of those three-for-five-dollar boxer-briefs, ...

Get all the top news & discounts for UK & beyond. Also in the Dorfman and for a limited, one-week run in September, famed Portuguese playwright and director of the Avignon Festival Tiago Rodrigues ...

Ron Sossi, who founded the landmark Odyssey Theatre in 1969, has died at the age of 85, the theater announced this weekend. Sossi died on March 19, the theater announced Saturday. No cause of death ...

Before the acceptance of Christianity, Roman polytheism was dominant in the western world. Rome's borders extended as far west as Britain and as far east as modern day Greece and Turkey. To help ease ...

Odysseus summons ancient Greek prophet Tiresias from the Underworld to consult him. Painting (crop) by Henry Fuceli (1841-1925) Public Domain Tiresias, the Ancient Greek prophet of god Apollo who ...