This myth of Phaedra, who was married to Athens’s King Theseus, and her ill-fated love for her stepson, Hippolytus, was ancient even in Euripides’ time over 2,000 years ago.

However brutal the action or tragic the outcome, the ancient myths of Greece and Rome emanate grandeur, heroism and nobility. As deconstructed and demythologized by Sarah Kane in Phaedra's Love ...

Performing Jean Racine’s “Phaedra” in English is like trying to make champagne in New Jersey. It’s not a matter of Gallic snobbery. The conditions are all wrong. The play poses formidable ...

The newly unearthed structure is called the House of Phaedra, named after a well-preserved painting of Phaedra and Hippolytus found on one of its walls.

Hippolytus, prince of his kingdom, sits scrunched in an armchair, dressed in dirty underwear and robe. He is watching television and eating junk food, his face impassive. Projected behind him are w… ...

Those who know what to expect from Jean Racine’s “Phaedra” will enjoy Muhlenberg Theatre Association’s stark, impassioned production of French neo-classicism’s most acclaimed tragedy.

Hippolytus provides the opening lines. They are orgasmic grunts. Indeed, “Phaedra’s Love” is a decidedly modern recreation of Euripedes’ ancient tale of love and tragedy. In the original version, ...

With "Phaedra's Lust," Archway Studio/Theatre Artistic Director Steven Sabel has skillfully adapted this classic story from the ancients Seneca and Euripides, by way of 17th-century French ...

Phaedra's Love is a Renaissance Austin Theatre Company production, but it's on a recognizable Vortex trajectory since the hourlong production includes incest, murder, rape, and graphic scenes that ...

In the West Coast premiere of Phaedra in Delirium, East Coast playwright Susan Yankowitz seeks to impose her will on the ancient story of Phaedra, bending it to suit her purpose. Apparently she ...