The Vienna Philharmonic's first concert at this year's Salzburg Festival pairs Oedipus Rex with the Symphonie fantastique, ...

One of the most recognizable figures of antiquity, the Sphinx, took many forms in the civilizations of Greece, the Near East ...

Nietzsche greatly admired Greek philosophy, which significantly influenced his ideas about life and human nature.

Musician and satirist Tom Lehrer stuck his alma mater into his music. Here's all the times he was singing about Harvard.

The 38-year-old met celebrated jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, 63, more than 21 years ago in New York when she attended the ...

The great comedic songwriter and performer Tom Lehrer passed away at 97 yesterday, outliving one of the writers credited with penning the “advance” obituary that The New York Times had been holding ...

Like many Westerns, Eddington, Ari Aster’s latest feature, unfolds with the inevitability of a Greek tragedy. It’s late May ...

The audience will follow the story of four very different characters, watching how their personal relationships intertwine at ...

Ultimately, The Sandman spends two seasons building to an epic conclusion that maddeningly lands (for now) with a thud. (The ...

Tom Lehrer, the celebrated musician and satirist renowned for his dark humor and sharp wit, has died at 97. The Harvard mathematician rose to prominen ...

A bold theatrical fusion of Sophocles’ two Oedipus plays mesmerizes over 17,000 spectators at the ancient theater of ...

The Gratiaen Prize is an annual literary award presented to the best work of creative writing in English by a Sri Lankan author. It was established in 1992 by Michael Ondaatje, using the prize money ...