A couple of young recovering addicts, an actor dealing with the pressures of success and a mother who vowed to abstain from drug use to save her children make up a small part of the audience. They and ...

The Bacchae is translated by Aaron Poochigian and directed by Anne Bogart. The production is created and performed by SITI company. Considered to be one of Euripides’ greatest works, The Bacchae is a ...

What madness possessed Indhu Rubasingham, the new artistic director of the National, to launch her regime with a slangy, coarse, expletive-riddled, seemingly slapdash version of Euripides’ Bacchae?

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In BACCHAE, Dionysus, god of wine and revelry, arrives in Thebes to avenge the ...

Can art be a salve in a world that seems to careen from crisis to existential crisis? Theatrical director Anne Bogart has considered that notion. "I don't think that our job as artists is to save" the ...

Yes, this is our great-great-great-great-grandfather’s Greek drama. SITI Company has brought its production of Euripides’ “Bacchae” to the Getty Villa outdoor amphitheater, where this vibrant evening ...

A power-hungry god tells his countrymen to worship him or he’ll make them regret it. They don’t. He does. That’ll do for a primer on Euripides‘ tragedy of Dionysus and “The Bacchae.” But the Playbill ...

Rule 1: Don't peep at bacchants. Anthony Mackie, center, and the Public Theater's Central Park cast. It’s really all Winckelmann’s fault. Here we sit, nearly a quarter-millennium after the ...