This play showed up on a wing and a prayer! A freshly-hatched, modernized version of the ancient Greek comedy “The Birds” will migrate to Dumbo next week. The satire about a democracy starring gods, ...

Actors Circle will present the ancient Greek comedy, Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata” March 13-16 and March 21-23 at Providence Playhouse, 1256 Providence Road, Scranton. The play’s heroine wants her ...

Dan Harmon‘s upcoming animated comedy “Krapopolis” hasn’t yet broadcast a single frame but, in an unprecedented move, Fox has already renewed the show for a further two seasons, president of scripted ...

Discussing the 2,400-year-old Aristophanes comedy that he’s adapting and directing at San Francisco’s EXIT Theatre, Stuart Bousel is quick to admit that it’s a hard play to get your mind around. “It’s ...

From its first performances in ancient Roman times, actors in Plautus’ “Menaechmi” enjoyed the convenience of a physical stage, in a theatre with a live audience before them. But with today’s social ...

Before there was Rick Ross, there was Figaro, an everyday hustlin’ barber from Sivigila. He’s the star of Gioachino Rossini’s comic opera The Barber of Seville, in which he helps a rich guy meet a ...

Lysistrata (LISS-i-STRA-da) is a bawdy anti-war comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, first staged in 411 BC. It is the comic account of one womans extraordinary mission to end the ...