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Home » Euripides

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Posted inArts & Culture

The Comedy of Errors, Marie Christine, and eight more new stage shows to see

by Chicago Reader November 2, 2017August 18, 2021

A cartoon-inspired staging of the Bard and a creole update of Medea are among this week’s best bets.

Posted inArts & Culture

Becky Shaw, Fun Home, and nine more notable new stage shows

by Chicago Reader October 4, 2017August 18, 2021

A black comedy at Windy City Playhouse and a black musical at Victory Gardens are among this week’s best bets.

Posted inBlogs

Court Theatre concludes its House of Atreus trilogy with a Hamlet-like Electra

by Tony Adler November 23, 2016August 18, 2021

Sandra Marquez and Kate Fry are darkly fascinating as Sophocles’s murderous queen and her obsessed daughter.

Posted inArts & Culture

Jackalope’s Prowess, Aguijón’s Adverses, and seven more new stage shows

by Chicago Reader May 26, 2016August 18, 2021

Ike Holter does it again—and so does Rey Andújar.

Posted inArts & Culture

Le Switch, The Mutilated, and nine more new reviews worth your notice

by Chicago Reader January 29, 2016August 18, 2021

On the off-Loop scene: the latest from local playwright Philip Dawkins, an obscure Tennessee Williams one-act, and a Neil LaBute funfest

Mark  L. Montgomery and Christopher Donaghue
Posted inArts & Culture

At Court Theatre, a fierce, cold, beautiful Iphigenia in Aulis

by Tony Adler November 19, 2014August 18, 2021

Euripides’s tragedy shows us both the necessity and the uselessness of action.

Walter Briggs, Erin Barlow, Tien Doman, Lindsey Gavel, Dana Omar, Emily Casey
Posted inArts & Culture

All Our Tragic combines 32 Greek tragedies into a playful 12-hour production

by Zac Thompson August 13, 2014August 18, 2021

The Hypocrites balance serious fare with a bubblegum-pop sensibility in All Our Tragic.

Mojado
Posted inArts & Culture

Ancient myth meets modern economics in Luis Alfaro’s Mojada

by Tony Adler July 31, 2013August 19, 2021

Ancient myth meets modern economics in Luis Alfaro’s Mojada.

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