Tales of love and loss are as ancient as humanity. In Greek mythology, Orpheus is the forlorn hero so desperate to reunite with his lover Eurydice that he endures multiple trips to the underworld. For ...

The tale is old as time - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy tries to rescue girl - rinse and repeat. With the 2019 Broadway debut of Anais Mitchell's, Hadestown, the classic Greek myth of Orpheus ...

As the saying goes, you never get a second chance to make a first impression. Writers Theatre's new artistic director Braden Abraham won't need a second chance, as evidenced by his captivating revival ...

When the myth about Eurydice is told it’s really the story of Orpheus: how he falls in love with her, how devasted he is when she gets bitten by a snake and dies, and how he goes to the underworld and ...

If there’s a lesson to learn from Sarah Ruhl’s “Eurydice,” it’s that one should never marry an artist. The Flowertown Players’ production, reprised for Piccolo Spoleto from a September 2024 production ...

Writers Theatre revives "Eurydice," a moving retelling of the Orpheus myth from the perspective of his doomed wife and her loving father. New artistic director Braden Abraham helms Wilmette native ...

Sarah Ruhl s Eurydice is a modern retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, but told from the feminine point of view of the wife. Thus, Eric Love, in his Lost Nation Theater directing debut ...

CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. — Playwright Sarah Ruhl’s "Eurydice" premiered at Madison Repertory Theatre in Wisconsin in 2003, nine years after the death of her father from cancer. “My father died of cancer when I ...

If his lovely new production of Sarah Ruhl’s “Eurydice” is a guidepost, artistic director Braden Abraham’s fresh tenure at Writers Theatre in Glencoe will feature elegant, beautifully designed ...

Talk about your tough decisions. Eurydice must choose between staying in the underworld with her beloved father or escaping with her new husband — a life or death decision. Writers Theatre, under the ...