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Can a woman be driven so over the edge that she’d do the unthinkable? That question has hovered over the protagonist of Euripides’ “Medea” for millennia — and it gets a fresh and stylized update in ...

It seems callous, even monstrous, to dub all of that "entertainment." Yet that's the only word that fits. Working from playwright Ben Powers' 2014 version of Euripides' Greek tragedy, director Jerry ...

Imago Theatre’s stage from its production of No Exit is back in action this season, but not for No Exit. Instead, Imago is producing Medea on the famously high-concept stage, a square platform ...

Immortalized by Euripides, the story of Medea has inspired numerous literary and musical works. Medea, the mythological sorceress and priestess of Hecate, murders her children when her husband, Jason, ...

With modern media’s growing offerings of female-centered retellings of classical tales, the ancient Greek myth of vengeful sorceress Medea may not seem so appealing. Medea, who takes revenge on her ...

Medea, Greek tragedy’s wronged wife turned homicidal avenger, is currently living as a seamstress in Boyle Heights. An immigrant from Mexico living here illegally, she is having trouble adapting to ...

Perhaps the hottest ticket at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival this spring is a show with a 2,000-year-old story: "Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles" by OSF's resident playwright, Luis Alfaro. He's a ...

(From L to R) Jim Lichtscheidl, Kate Guentzel and Kurt Kwan star in Pillsbury House Theatre's production of "The Children," a play inspired by the Greek tragedy "Medea." When it comes to staying ...

MEDEA: Tragedy. By Euripides. Directed by Deborah Warner. (Through Nov. 25. Abbey Theatre at Zellerbach Playhouse, UC Berkeley. 80 minutes. Tickets $36- $56. (510) 642-9988, www.calperfs.berkeley.edu) ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Medea is a figure from ancient Greece, who's had a lively reputation in Western literature and art. She ...