The mythical cycle of Argos involves many well-known stories and characters, such as Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and Orestes. One of the only surviving tragic trilogies centers on these characters and ...

Led by Oscar-winning Hollywood starlet Brie Larson, it's a snarling, punk travesty of Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy ...

The 80-year-old stars in the production of Elektra as Clytemnestra, while Larson plays the titular character. The play is an ...

Josephine Baker’s memoir has been translated into English for the first time, fifty years after the death of the iconic performer. Cultural historian Dr Adjoa Osei and translator Anam Zafar discuss ...

The question of whether Rami Malek can actually act has always hung over this most idiosyncratic of performers, whose Oscar ...

Today's current affairs seem so mirrored in the past; the great events of long, long ago seem so similar to what’s happening today. Not events ...

The Greeks knew this when they staged plays set in a heroic age of extremes ... more typically associated with men. In Sophocles’s Electra, which is being staged at the Duke of York’s Theatre ...

Stockard Channing also features in this London staging of Anne Carson's translation, directed by Daniel Fish, whose radical ...