The Athenian poet Euripides was the last of the three great Greek tragedians (after Aeschylus and Sophocles) and also the least successful. Greek tragedies were performed competitively at religious ...

It wasn't an immediate success. Not according to the judges at Athens' annual dramatic festival when "Medea" premiered in 431 B.C. Euripides received the third, or last, prize, losing out to Euphorion ...

After her success with Ibsen's A Doll's House, Carrie Cracknell now turns her directorial attention to an even more wronged heroine: Euripides' Medea, who avenges herself on Jason by murdering their ...

Simon Stone’s smart and harrowing retelling of Euripides is performed by a flawless ensemble Euripides’ Medea was first performed in Athens, in 431BC– and it came last in a competition. Within a year, ...

Killing your parents is one thing. Killing your own children is quite another. Children are innocent, parents are responsible for everything in life, good and bad. Luis Alfaro took on patricide and ...

Infanticide in any culture, in any period, is a vile crime. A parent, let alone a mother, consciously killing a child is deeply repugnant. Medea’s revenge is calculated to eradicate Jason’s past, ...

If you don’t know much about Greek mythology, “Medea” is Euripides’ dramatization of the ancient story of the sorceress daughter of a barbarian king whose arrogant husband leaves her for another woman ...

This sharp modern take on Euripides’s Medea is the work of Rachel Cusk, a writer perhaps best known for her unsparingly candid memoirs. Aftermath, her account of her divorce, is saturated with ...

The Immersive Art Collective will present its inaugural theater production, "Medea Unleashed," at its home venue, the Immersive Arts Center in Downtown Los Angeles, with an interactive pre-show ...

Jersey Shore based NENAproductions Theater Project announces an all-male identifying cast for its spring production of Euripides' Greek tragedy, MEDEA. Directly in line with NENA's mission, ...