Sitting in the ancient remains of the Rose theatre surrounded by candles, wrapped in blankets and drinking tea, is certainly an extraordinary setting for a night at the theatre watching House on the ...

Madison Shakespeare Company presents a full-length production of Christopher Marlowe’s supernatural romance: Dido, Queen of Carthage. Directed by Cassie Hankins and Jason Compton. Unbeknownst to Dido ...

Love, obsession, fire, and Greek gods - no, not the ingredients of a horror film, but a 16th century black comedy, brought to you by the American Repertory Theater (ART). And although ART's production ...

MANY LEGENDS attend the beginning of Carthage, an ancient city in modern-day Tunisia. Its founder, Queen Dido, a refugee from the Phoenician city of Tyre (now in Lebanon), is supposed to have made an ...

A vision of ancient Carthage, attributed to the painter William Linton, c. 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art Around 310 B.C.E., Carthage was under siege by Agathocles of Syracuse and his army.

Performed by the Dunedin Consort, under John Butt, in a production by Frederic Wake-Walker, it premiered at the Barbican last month and has now moved on to Buxton International Festival before ...

As the RSC seems to have given up on Shakespeare’s precursors and contemporaries, it’s great news that the National is reviving Christopher Marlowe’s first play, and in such a fine, insidiously ...