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The summertime is peak season for ancient Greek theatre and the majority of performances present contemporary adaptations in Greek. One upcoming production this July will present Elektra from ...

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This fall, the Getty Villa Museum and the Troubadour Theater Company will present Oedipus the King, Mama! for the 19th annual ...

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Sophocles George Manos, entered into eternal rest surrounded by his family on Friday, July 4, 2025. He is fondly remembered by many as George or "Doonie".

The history of Modern Greek at Harvard University begins in 1828, just a few years after the start of the Greek War of ...

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Tony Award winners Celia Keenan-Bolger and Tony Shalhoub will star in Antigone (This Play I Read in High School), a reimagining of the ancient play by Sophocles, at the Public Theater in 2026.Tyne ...

Sophocles’s Elektra is consumed with grief over her father’s murder (by her mother and her new lover) and obsessed with retribution, so she convinces her brother to kill them both.

“The archaic element of the older, stuffier translations really isn’t there,” Hammond said. “It’s a lot more pared down. Someone commented where Sophocles used 12 words, Anne Carson used one.” Bennett ...