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Princeton Summer Theater’s (PST) 2026 season continues with THE 39 STEPS, a noir farce full of danger, mystery, and laughs.

South African dance phenom Mthuthuzeli November commands the rehearsal room with gentle authority. The choreographic language he’s created melds the controlled structure of ballet with the fluidity of ...

More than 2 400 years after Euripides first penned The Bacchae, the ancient Greek tragedy is finding new life on a Johannesburg stage. But this is no dusty retelling of a classical text. The Bacchae: ...

Film is like the indestructible black knight in Monty Python's The Holy Grail: It's not dead yet. Digital photography is well into its third decade. Yet film keeps hanging on, lying there shouting, ...

On Oct. 23, Duke Players opened their fall show “The Bacchae,” directed by senior JR Cassidy. This production, like many others of Duke Players, took place in Brody Theater, a theatre that perfectly ...

John le Carré was a master of the spy novel – not by glamorising espionage, but by stripping it of illusion. His stories abandoned the trope of the suave, heartless agent in favour of morally complex ...

Warning: this article contains spoilers. Indhu Rubasingham has begun her tenure as the director of the National Theatre with her production of Bacchae, playwright Nima Taleghani’s new version of ...

In many ways this is the perfect play for the beginning of a new era at the National. The origins of Western theatre are acknowledged in the choice of a Greek classic, played in the Olivier auditorium ...

The first production from every new director of the National Theatre is an event – a sign of which way the wind might blow. As Indhu Rubasingham unveiled Bacchae, most of her living predecessors were ...