Not since late December and its annual swath of A Christmas Carols invading the region have there been so many productions of a single play presented in single season. Shakespeare's A Midsummer ...

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 ...

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 ...