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Few figures in Greek myth burn as fiercely as Medea. Gifted with sorcery and cursed with betrayal, she helped Jason seize the ...
The Greek tragedy "Medea," mounted by Dublin's Abbey Theatre and starring Irish actress Fiona Shaw, came to the Brooklyn Academy of Music and played a mere 13 performances.
Indeed, Medea’s situation bears a chilling resemblance to current research on maternal filicide. She’s been abandoned by her husband in a foreign land where she has no support network.
Sondra Radvanovsky portrays the mythic sorceress in this Met premiere of Cherubini’s rarely performed masterpiece. Corporate support for Great Performances at the Met is provided by Toll ...
As Medea rails against her husband's wrongdoings, Chorus pulls out her cell phone to record the rant, not once, but several times during the show. It’s all viral-worthy material and the tech ...
A Greek “modern Medea” has been charged with killing all three of her young daughters — months after appearing on TV to bemoan her kids’ “mysterious” deaths. Police arrested mom Roula ...
The Medea Hypothesis might be epitomized by the story of photosynthetic life on Earth. As Ward explained in our interview, plant life on Earth has a repeated tendency to evolve in a way that it ...
“Medea,” which opened the Met’s season and will be broadcast to movie theaters around the world on Saturday as part of the company’s Live in HD series, has emerged as a career-defining ...
From Medea to Posh: We spoke to the theatre directors whose all-female productions have caused a stir With the all-female staging of 'Medea' which is currently on at the Bristol Old Vic, we take a ...
This “Medea” is McVicar’s 12th — 12th! — staging for the company in a little over a decade, surpassing the 11 directed by Franco Zeffirelli from 1964 to 1998.
‘Medea’: Theater Review Real-life partners Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale star as a divided couple in Simon Stone's modern-day riff on Euripides' classic Greek tragedy, 'Medea.' ...