We live under perpetual war. Yet the media and other cultural institutions are silent. They thrive on violence and trivia. I travelled to ancient Greece for an alternative model. Rereading Euripides’ ...

Farzad Amini is the director of the troupe and a cast composed of Hadis Bahrami-Yarahmadi, Bahram Abassifar, Zahra Suri, Raha Soleimani, Rozita Sabzeqabaei, Ali Tarimi and Niayesh Nahavandi.

“Hippolytus” is an Ancient Greek tragedy based on the myth of Hippolytus whose stepmother Phaedra falls in love with him. Earlier in June, the group performed the play at the theater for several weeks ...

ENDEAVORING to hear and understand the Getty Villa production of Euripides’ “Hippolytus” was a tragedy and an expensive one [“A Curriculum of Classics,” Aug. 27]. The inability to hear more than half ...

Aficionados like to keep on about the relevance of Ancient Greek drama but sometimes these God and myth-heavy set-ups can hang heavy on contemporary ears and eyes. Hippolytus, a fatal clash between ...

The gods seemed to be smiling on the Getty Villa’s Inaugural Theater Production of Euripides’ classic Greek tragedy Hippolytus on a recent evening. The large August moon hovered just above the house ...