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 ...

U.S. writer David Vann’s “Bright Air Black” is not for the sensitive or those who prefer verbs. AFP Getty Images David Vann’s “Bright Air Black” retells the tale of Medea and Jason and the Argonauts.

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 ...

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 ...

Infanticide in any culture, in any period, is a vile crime. A parent, let alone a mother, consciously killing a child is deeply repugnant. Medea’s revenge is calculated to eradicate Jason’s past, ...