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Carrie Watt is the prototypical Southern woman. She begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie, and pretentious daughter...

Yes indeed, it is the 50th anniversary of the summer of love, and guess what?  San Francisco is celebrating.  We were there for other r...

I had my first vacation in a while recently and one of the things that I did was go to a play at the Goodman theater in Chicago.  A matine...

When you are thinking about the Oedipus trilogy specifically and Greek tragedy in general it is hard to say which play is sadder than the ...

The story of Oedipus was well known to the audience that Sophocles was writing for.  The play opens in the middle but everyone in Sophocle...

Euripides is not a big fan of war if 'Trojan Woman" is any indication.  It takes place at the end of the ten year war between the...

Euripides is not a playwright known for his happy endings and Hippolytus is no exception.  They don't call it tragedy for nothing. ...

Even by Greek standards, Medea was a complicated woman for whom her magical powers were both a gift and a curse.  The ever troublesome A...

I have been immersing myself in the Classics (with a capital 'C') and despite a life long avoidance of learning anything to do ...

I saw this wonderful one woman play at Riverside Theater last weekend--my only regreat is that I did not get to see it sooner so that I co...

I saw 'Opus' in a wonderful small intimate theater in Seattle. The play is centered entirely around an established string quartet, ...