In the half-light, a man runs across the floor on two feet and one hand. Another stands on his head and then lowers his feet, gracefully, behind his back. The light changes. Two men look each other in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s a manifesto, how can it not be. For her first production as the first female Director of the National Theatre, and first of ...

Hope Mohr Dance has announced the world premiere of Bacchae Before, a dance theater project inspired by the tragedies of gender reveal parties and Anne Carson's Bakkhai. Co-directed by playwright Maxe ...

South African dance phenom Mthuthuzeli November commands the rehearsal room with gentle authority. The choreographic language he’s created melds the controlled structure of ballet with the fluidity of ...

The audience may not learn much about Euripides’ “The Bacchae” by watching Marlene Monteiro Freitas’s evening of dance theatre, but that won’t matter much once Freitas’s surreal, grotesque onstage ...

It sounded such a good idea: the true story of a legendary Brazilian slave leader fired up as a re-working of the Dionysus legend in Euripides' The Bacchae and set to the music of the forests and ...

I hadn't been working on my new version of The Bacchae for long when I came across some lines that resonated very strongly with me. In the chorus, the Bacchae sing a hymn to the good things that come ...

It's a manifesto, how can it not be. For her first production as the first female Director of the National Theatre, and first of colour, Indhu Rubasingham throws open the doors of the Olivier with an ...