The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. On Friday night, the University of Georgia Theatre welcomed attendants into its ...

Martin Andrucki, Charles A. Dana Professor of Theater, directs the Bates College theater department production of Alcestis, Euripides’ tragedy about a king, doomed to die, who offers up his wife in ...

Between three humanities departments, the tragic story of a woman who gave her life for her husband is taking center stage — ancient Greek dramatist Euripides’ story of Alcestis. The play attempts to ...

Mortality: the inexorable reality of life and the unsettling theme of Critical Mass Performance Group’s movement-based and myth-inspired new theater piece, “Alcestis,” at Theatre @ Boston Court in ...

What drove Ted Hughes to adapt Alcestis, the Euripides play in which a wife dies in order that her husband may live? The temptation is to see it as a deeply personal work hewn out of Hughes's ...

Euripides' play "Alcestis" struck the chime of elegance last weekend in the capable hands of Genesius Guild, which will present the 2,400-year-old work again this weekend. The oldest surviving work by ...