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 ...

EURIPIDES first “ received a chorus ” — that is, was chosen as one of three contending poets, each of whom was to present a trio of dramas at the festival of Dionysos — in 455 R. c. His literary ...

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NEW YORK — For an actress with dreams of a Tony award, a tragedy from 431 BC might just provide the winning role she’s been looking for. “Medea,” Euripides’ proto-feminist potboiler about a woman who ...

Charles Hubbard reviews the new DramSoc production of Euripedes' classical tragedy Edie Dacosta Jackson and Ed Buckley's ...

Before the opening line of Euripides' play is ever uttered on stage, director Ann Aiko Bergeron utterly convinced the audience on opening night at UMD's Dudley Experimental Theatre that "Medea" is a ...

Jared Reed as Jason and Jennifer Summerfield as Medea in Hedgerow Theatre's production of "Medea." (Photo supplied by the production) Euripides lost the new-play festival in Greece 2,449 years ago – ...

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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 ...