Performed in the annual Dionysia festivals, tragic drama was a central tradition of Ancient Greece, a method of both ...

Ancient Greeks once crowded into a theater in Pleurona, seating themselves on stone slabs and awaiting on-stage entertainment. The outdoor theater, carved into a hillside and overlooking a lagoon in ...

This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of ...

Welcome to a hilarious journey back in time with Greece is the Word! Set in the sun-drenched world of ancient Greece, this comedy play offers a riotous twist on mythology, philosophy, and the ...

In ancient Greece the great playwrights helped to plant and nurture the seeds of representative government through their characters and plots. By David Belcher This article is from a special report on ...

A notable figure who blazed the trail for Greek tragedy was a man named Thespis. A poet and actor, Thespis began to act out individual characters by switching between different masks. In its earliest ...

Heinz-Uwe Haus’ book Heinz-Uwe Haus and Theatre Making in Cyprus and Greece, originally published in 2021, was released in paperback in December 2024 (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). The professor in ...

an ancient hilltop theater was recently restored, Greek officials said. A reopening ceremony will be held on Aug. 31. Photo from the Ministry of Culture Ancient Greeks once crowded into a theater in ...