The 2006 musical, Hadestown, has renewed interest in the Greek mythology and the tragic love story between Orpheus and ...

When the myth about Eurydice is told it’s really the story of Orpheus: how he falls in love with her, how devasted he is when she gets bitten by a snake and dies, and how he goes to the underworld and ...

Broadway’s “Hadestown” is only one way of telling the story of Eurydice and Orpheus. Students from Lane Community College are about to present “Eurydice,” a play written by Sarah Ruhl, based on the ...

The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is among the most persisting legacies of Greek antiquity. It has been told and retold by Virgil, Ovid, and even Plato. This time, it finds itself reincarnated in Sarah ...

In the Jewish Theatre Ensemble’s production of the play “Eurydice,” light became a character unto itself. Used in the construction of set changes and as a way to differentiate the underworld from the ...

Foul Contending Rebel's delightfully inventive production of Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice immerses the audience in a reimagining of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The play moves between the world of ...

As the saying goes, you never get a second chance to make a first impression. Writers Theatre's new artistic director Braden Abraham won't need a second chance, as evidenced by his captivating revival ...

SANTA CRUZ — Students of Greek mythology are well-versed in the story of Orpheus, the Thracian poet whose wife, Eurydice, is killed by a snakebite and sent to the underworld until he uses music to ...

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Before a single line of Sarah Ruhl’s 2003 play “Eurydice” is spoken, a curious stage direction stands like a sentinel at its front gate. Ruhl’s production notes specify that in this reimagining of the ...

Aucoin, 31, is a polymath: the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, he's a pianist, conductor, composer, impresario and writer. And he loves opera—even if he finds it an "impossible" art form. "I ...

The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has inspired operas from the beginning of the art form, more than 400 years ago. Tonight, the Metropolitan Opera in New York City plays host to a new iteration: ...