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1 day ago · Electra (c. 418 BC) explores the psychological and moral complexities of vengeance. Electra and her brother Orestes plot to kill their mother, Clytemnestra, to avenge their father’s murder. Euripides portrays Electra as both a victim of her circumstances and a willing participant in the cycle of bloodshed.
1 day ago · Nearby is “Fragments,” a digitized performance piece in which Metivier performs a tearful monologue from The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis. Accompanied by a haunting ...
4 days ago · Between Riverside and Crazy: Stephen Adly Guirgis won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2015 when Between Riverside and Crazy premiered off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company. It made its Broadway debut at the Helen Hayes Theater in 2022 with original director Austin Pendleton.
3 days ago · Stephen Adly Guirgis | Credit: courtesy Witness the first steps of potential future classics at the Ojai Playwrights Conference’s 27th Annual New Works Festival, August 1-4, at Milligan Center for the Performing Arts at The Thacher School (5025 Thacher Rd., Ojai).
5 days ago · As part of its 2023-2024 Season, The Old Academy Players will present the Philadelphia stage premiere of The Broken Hollow Banshee, written and directed by OAP member Rob Rosiello. Learn how to...
6 days ago · George Edward Kelly (January 16, 1887 – June 18, 1974) was an American playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor. He began his career in vaudeville as an actor and sketch writer. He became best known for his satiric comedies, including The Torch-Bearers (1922) and The Show-Off (1924).
3 days ago · Eugene O'Neill. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg. The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night is often included on lists of ...
