A few years ago, the UK’s National Theatre staged an exceptionally moving Christmas show. Among the characters were a pregnant woman and her partner, searching for a place to rest. So far, so seasonal ...

Sophocles is the first tragedian known to have written what modern scholars have termed unconnected trilogies ... but it is worth looking into since it was so patently a part of his art in its day.

I’m a culture reporter for The New York Times, where I investigate the art world’s relationship to money, politics and ...

In fact, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides are the only links we have to this ancient art form; so it is their dramas we look ... has been politically devalued in modern times. At one level this is ...

Along with museums, there are plenty of contemporary art galleries in Cairo, many of which are in Zamalek on Gezira island in ...

Explore Plato's life, his philosophical impact, and his travels to Sicily, along with key ideas on justice and the ideal ...

The program is wildly eclectic, and can be confusing: On my first visit, for example, I thought I had booked tickets for a ...

Critics hailed its premiere, by the New York City Ballet in December 1957, as a landmark in modern dance history, “a living textbook on the art of blending ... is based on Sophocles’s tragedy ...

the Stella Adler Studio of Acting has created an advanced-level summer intensive which endeavors to illuminate modern realism through the lens of its greatest practitioner. Anton Chekhov offers plays ...

This post highlights historical places to visit in Athens Greece. It also provides insight into planning your itinerary for a trip to Athens.

His modern cultural progeny can be found on the beaches of Florida ... Sizable portions of The Trackers, a satyr play by Sophocles, have been recovered on an Egyptian papyrus—someone in later ...