There is a moment in the second act of the play “The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea,” when Huitzilopochtli, god of the sun and war, is born. After birth, he fights the moon to defend his mother, the ...

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 ...

Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, and Madeline Weinstein in Medea (2020), dir. Simon Stone (all images courtesy of BAM, photos by Richard Termine © 2020) In Greek myth ...

If you’re not up on your Greek Mythology, and don’t know the tale of Medea, written by Greek playwright Euripides in 431 BC, ...

With modern media’s growing offerings of female-centered retellings of classical tales, the ancient Greek myth of vengeful sorceress Medea may not seem so appealing. Medea, who takes revenge on her ...

Perversely choosing the most irredeemable of heroines to rehabilitate, Bernardi presents a modern Medea who learns to curb her grief-born infanticidal urges, even as her Jason eventually manages to ...

In one of the most horrific events in theatrical literature, Euripides’ vengeful Medea answers her husband’s betrayal by murdering their offspring. Michael Elyanow recalls watching the Abbey Theater’s ...