Poor Ted Cruz. The guy can’t even take an expensive, international vacation without facing criticism for abandoning his ...

At the Salzburg Festival, a new adaptation of “The Oresteia” will put a classic story of war, democracy and revenge into a modern context.

A notable figure who blazed the trail for Greek tragedy was a man named Thespis. A poet and actor, Thespis began to act out individual characters by switching between different masks. In its ...

Several British universities have placed "trigger warnings" on classic literature, including Shakespearean tragedies, because they often contain dark, mature content.

My late classics professor taught me that Ancient Greek tragedy dramatized different points of view, insisted on empathy, and warned against hubris. What would he have made of our current moment?

In Greek tragedy, choice and fate are the same. Creon chose to designate his nephew’s body as that of a traitor, ignoring their blood relation, thereby sealing his fate and that of his entire ...

On Oct. 28, 2015, an overloaded boat filled with refugees broke up and capsized off the coast of Lesvos, a Greek island. Hundreds were thrown into the water, and dozens were killed.

The sinking of a packed migrant boat off the coast of Greece may be “the worst tragedy ever” in the Mediterranean sea, according to the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson.

Antigone a theatrical Greek Tragedy plays in the Fischer Black Box at the Las Vegas Little Theatre August 2-11.

The Greek classic has gotten some updates from Canadian playwright and poet Anne Carson, whose 2012 version runs 75 minutes and is getting a Full Circle Theater production that opens Saturday at ...

In the fifth century BCE, the ancient Greek playwrights Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides achieved immortal fame through tragic plays like “Antigone,” “Oedipus Rex,” “Agamemnon,” and ...