A Bread Factory, Part Two

Part two of Patrick Wang's esoteric examination of art in Upstate New York

"...collective the Bread Factory is staging an update of Euripides’ Hecuba. The production is coupled with Max (Sayle) taking..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Thinkery & Verse's Dionysus in America

This contemporary spin on The Bacchae shows how little the unjust treatment of women has changed in 2,500 years

"...many things in common with that ancient play. Like Euripides, Pacanowki is interested in the plight of women. She..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Arts Review by Laura Jones

Austin Shakespeare's Medea

This production of the Greek tragedy asks the audience to consider the whole story before passing judgment

"...vengeance. For many, the mythos beyond the confines of Euripides' script – translated by Frederic Raphael and Kenneth McLeish..."

March 4, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Medea

City Theatre digs into the ancient Greek tragedy with a wink at antiquated gender politics

"...at the antiquated ideas of "man vs. woman" in Euripides' play provides the highlight of director Karen Sneed's interpretation..."

June 29, 2012 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

'Bacchae' to the Future

How in (a Greek) god's name can the Rude Mechs re-create Dionysus in 69 in '09?

"...as being to the man-deity himself, whose actions propel Euripides' tragedy. After all, as Schechner described him to the..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

"...The Sound of Sweatbox Scratch that recent blurb about Euripides Pants' (and former Sin City Disciples) member Brett Ingle..."

July 14, 1995 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, February 19-25

"...PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Ancient Greek playwright Euripides was popular and influential – and remains so to..."

Feb. 19, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

A Bread Factory, Part One

Part one of Patrick Wang's epic satire of small-town art life

"...just want to put on a new version of Euripides’ Hecuba, and in doing so save their beloved small-town..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Savory Spice Shop

Taste what you want; buy what you need

"...of life, that gives it all its flavor." – Euripides..."

March 25, 2011 Food Review by MM Pack

Dionysus in 69

The Rude Mechs' re-creation lets us experience a tragedy in a rare and personal way

"...not only that space of ecstatic ritual described by Euripides but also, in a rough room next to the..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Classics Comeback

Are the great dramas of yore reclaiming their place on Austin's stages?

"...Euripides, is that you?..."

July 3, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Greatest Gift

An oral history unearthing one of post-punk's most seminal acts: Austin's Scratch Acid

"...and the Didjits, among others. He also played in Euripides Pants, an Austin swing quintet that was a scene..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Medea

Playwright Liz Lochhead brings Euripides' tale of Medea and her hideous yet compelling vengeance into the present day, but delivers a surprisingly staid and familiar rendition of the tragedy, and while the this Vortex Repertory Company production offers some striking dramatic tableaux, it suffers from pacing problems, a lack of dramatic tension, and little effective storytelling.

"...This new, modern-set adaptation by playwright Liz Lochhead of Euripides' tale of the spurned wife who finds justification for..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

The Medea Stories

With The Medea Stories, the St. Edward's University Theatre Department with guest artists from the SITI Company reinvents Euripides' tragedy as a modern courtroom drama and connects us to Medea's tale with immediacy and a great urgency.

"...intense that to invoke them in the context of Euripides' tragedy is to call up the same shock and..."

April 19, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Frogs: Awkward Bawdy

Local Arts Reviews

"...ample contemporary slang and a plethora of modern references. Euripides is played with convincing arrogance by Elizabeth Fast as..."

July 28, 2000 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

Sxsw

"...EURIPIDES PANTS: A band cannot live on schmaltz alone. Euripides..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Lysergic Eyeballing

Paul Leary

"...Johnston, the Meat Puppets, the Supersuckers, and the forthcoming Euripides Pants debut LP. Somehow, though, it seems doubtful it's..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Music Feature

Playing God – Literally

A smartphone's all you need to let loose your inner Zeus and control the action in Deus Ex Machina

"...there are different versions of the plays by Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles, the Oresteia offers a world of slightly..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Have Car, Will Travel for Film

CineMarfa

"...archetypal imagery. Pasolini's Medea, released in 1969, takes the Euripides play and turns it into a rich, visual epic..."

April 25, 2014 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Messenger No. 4 (Or... How to Survive a Greek Tragedy)

This riff on Greek tragic conventions stuffs plays within plays with giddy charm

"...sticking to the script. And he's especially sick of Euripides. After falling in love with Electra's levelheaded sister Chrysothemis,..."

March 2, 2012 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

Bedside Manner: The Book of Levi

Alaskan redneck meets Greek tragedy

"...as the title character in an update of the Euripides classic. Johnston plays a hockey-playing trophy redneck brought back..."

Oct. 3, 2011 Books Post by Mike Crissey

FronteraFest Schedule

"..."T–" by Cindy Vining. An extract from Euripides' The Trojan Women. Friday, Jan. 22..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Arts Feature

The Trojan Women

A version that shows us in the women of Troy the brutalized women of our own time's wars

"...with as they will. Certainly, that was true when Euripides..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires

'Orestes'

A contemporary playwright explains what drew him to adapt an ancient Greek tragedy

"...his faith. This theme barely scratches the surface in Euripides' original – Orestes questions Apollo's commands but only sparingly..."

July 31, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

When Good Things Happen to Bad Bills – and Vice Versa

Bad bills fly, while good bills die

"...collapse was caused by not enough hedge-fund managers reading Euripides. The bill is pending in committee...."

May 22, 2009 News Column by the News Staff

An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides

Call it anti-canon: This terrific new translation goes the distance from breathless to brutish to keening

"...Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripidestranslated by Anne Carson Faber & Faber, 272 pp., $27..."

April 24, 2009 Books Review by Kimberley Jones

I Am Not a Kook!

"...flagrant and blatant use of deus ex machina since Euripides. Truly, you are a pioneer in the field of..."

March 24, 2009 Postmarks

Eleni Karaindrou

"...expertly employs old and new: traditional Mediterranean, melismatic instrumentals, Euripides, her grandfather's mandolin, orthodox plainchant, and Western classical. The..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Music Review by David Lynch

Phaedra's Love

Renaissance Austin Theatre Company's staging of 'Phaedra's Love' is not for the prudish eye, what with its incest, murder, rape, and graphic scenes that require splash guards

"...a stark contrast to the character as written by Euripides, Seneca, and Racine, three dramatists who have retold the..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Bash

In Bash, a collection of monologues by Neil LaBute, the protagonists appear to be considerate, decent people, but in the stories they share they prove themselves capable of committing crimes straight out of Greek tragedy, and the dirigo group production achieves a breezy intimacy with the audience, engaging us so thoroughly that when the darkness falls, we find it hard to abandon them.

"...men and women that populate the blood-stained works of Euripides and Sophocles...."

Dec. 6, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

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