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Entertainment & Arts
Grief Lessons Four Plays by Euripides Anne Carson New York Review Books: 312 pp., $19.95
Aug. 30, 2006
Aug. 27, 2011
‘The Trojan Women (After Euripides)’ info
Aug. 28, 2011
The straightforward production of “Iphigenia in Aulis” that opened Wednesday at the Getty Villa’s outdoor Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater might be retitled “Clytemnestra,” so enlivening is Sandra Marquez’s performance as the mother of the young woman whose life must be sacrificed so that the Greek ships can depart for Troy.
Sept. 8, 2017
The surviving Greek tragedies pose inordinate challenges to contemporary theater practitioners, but Euripides’ “Bacchae,” one of his most beloved works, may be the trickiest of all to stage.
Sept. 9, 2018
World & Nation
The correct translation of the original Euripides quote (“What Is That Quote?
Feb. 8, 1992
The Getty Villa wanted a comedy, but Anne Bogart and SITI Company proved persuasive in their desire to stage Euripides’ tragedy.
Sept. 3, 2011
There is no shortage of bloodshed and blindness in the works of Euripides.
Oct. 16, 1987