Broadway’s “Hadestown” is only one way of telling the story of Eurydice and Orpheus. Students from Lane Community College are ...

In Sarah Ruhl’s topsy-turvy plays, characters are constantly struggling to figure out the world and their place in it. A maid neglects her duties while trying to come up with the perfect joke in “The ...

Shotgun Players presents a bold, physical production of a play by Sarah Ruhl. The Bay Area theater scene is smitten with Sarah Ruhl. The upcoming seasons at Marin Theatre Company, San Francisco ...

The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is among the most persisting legacies of Greek antiquity. It has been told and retold by Virgil, Ovid, and even Plato. This time, it finds itself reincarnated in Sarah ...

This new approach to the storytelling of Hadestown helped make me appreciate some of the compromises on the tour. And to ...

It is an ancient story of the power, and limits, of love. Orpheus adored Eurydice. But soon after they wed she died, and Orpheus was so bereft the Greek gods took pity and gave him a chance to rescue ...

SANTA CRUZ — Students of Greek mythology are well-versed in the story of Orpheus, the Thracian poet whose wife, Eurydice, is killed by a snakebite and sent to the underworld until he uses music to ...

In Greek mythology, Eurydice is an especially tragic character. She married Orpheus, the greatest musician who ever lived — but died on their wedding day and descended into the Underworld. The love of ...

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“Where is her death now? Ah, will you discover / This theme before your song consumes itself?” asked Rainer Maria Rilke in his poem cycle, “Sonnets to Orpheus.” Playwright Sarah Ruhl poses much the ...

Sarah Ruhl’s 2003 lyrical drama comes around almost as often as revivals of “Hamlet” in this town. Circle X Theatre Co. introduced the play to L.A. audiences in 2006. Since then, productions at the ...

On Nov. 12-16, the Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts will perform the Greek tragedy “Eurydice.” “Eurydice” was written by American writer and playwright Sarah Ruhl and directed by Virginia ...