Electra is a troubled and troublesome lass. Stuck in second gear in the grief cycle (anger) over the long-past murder of her father, she’s still jonesing for revenge. We are expected to relish her ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Directed by Christopher Bohan. Regicide, Matricide, Infanticide, oh my!! In the ...

Poet and translator Anne Carson describes Electra’s screams as “bones of sound.” She writes about these untranslatable syllables like objects of sharp, piercing pain. But in the Barnard theater ...

The recent and sadly brief visit of Peter Stein’s wonderful Electra with the National Theater of Greece was a joy The recent and sadly brief visit of Peter Stein’s wonderful Electra with the National ...

Sophocles is difficult. Unlike Euripides, whose dramas seem so modern, so sarcastic, Sophocles' plays rely on complex philosophical explorations more than action. You can have your catharsis, but ...