Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BRATTLEBORO — Vermont Theatre Company aims to immerse audiences in ancient Greece and Dionysian culture when "The Bacchae" is performed at 118 Elliot ...

NEW YORK — The women of Thebes are dancing. The women are rioting. They are breast-feeding wolf cubs and disemboweling cows and using snakes as belts. Just because you’re possessed by a fierce and ...

Can art be a salve in a world that seems to careen from crisis to existential crisis? Theatrical director Anne Bogart has considered that notion. "I don't think that our job as artists is to save" the ...

A power-hungry god tells his countrymen to worship him or he’ll make them regret it. They don’t. He does. That’ll do for a primer on Euripides‘ tragedy of Dionysus and “The Bacchae.” But the Playbill ...

Euripides’ classic Bacchae narrates the Greek myth of King Pentheus of Thebes, and Agave, his mother and leader of the Bacchae, a group of women who live freely on a mountainside. Under the influence ...

Of all the ticked-off gods in Greek mythology, Dionysus might have one of the bigger chips on his shoulder. With gossip swirling that he has a (gasp!) mortal mother, he’s irked that some believe he’s ...

A couple of young recovering addicts, an actor dealing with the pressures of success and a mother who vowed to abstain from drug use to save her children make up a small part of the audience. They and ...

When Euripides envisaged the part of Dionysus, the god of good times in "The Bacchae," he was probably thinking of an actor with the pansexual charisma of Alan Cumming. When Euripides envisaged the ...