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

In her new book, "A Greek Tragedy," Jeanne Carstensen investigates a deadly 2015 shipwreck off the Greek island of Lesvos, ...

“It’s a joy to be celebrating our 20th anniversary with this stellar line up of playwrights and plays.” This summer’s opener is “Greek Tragedy” by Lia Romeo, 7 p.m. Thursday, June 26.

Amidst a national funding crisis, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference will return to McCall, Idaho June 2-14 to celebrate its 25th year with a powerful lineup of new plays and events.

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?

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.

Greek tragedy frequently explored the devastating power of curses, particularly within the context of familial doom. The House of Atreus, as depicted in Aeschylus’ Oresteia, is one of the most famous ...

The golden age of tragedy, dominated by the playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, had finished several decades ago.

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 ...

Writer/ director Marian Quinn told David Hennessy about Twig which is set to screen at Irish Film Festival London. Twig, a retelling of the Greek tragedy Antigone in gangland Dublin, will screen at ...