Immortal Ibsen
Second only to Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen is the most-performed playwright in the world. This program, as much a tribute to the art of theater as to the immortal Ibsen, reveals a perennial fascination with Norway's master playwright. Excerpts from A ...
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Scholars agree that Shakespeare collaborated on this dramatic romance and not much is regarded to be his alone. The story, which first appeared in medieval literature, is of the Prince of Tyre, who flees upon discovering his King in an incestuous re...
Oedipus at Colonus
Bearer of an almost unspeakable, immutable fate, Oedipus yet feels himself a man chosen-that is, favored-by the gods. Now an old man, blind and outcast, Oedipus wanders through Greece guided by his daughter Antigone until he comes to Colonus, where ...