What makes this show a candidate for the best solo show in Chicago theater history is that the telling comes at great cost to the teller.

The team now believe the Agios Athanasios is the previously-referenced site of the Odysseion—the center of a cult of hero ...

The theater company’s producing artistic director stars in the nearly one-man show just months after collapsing at home.

If you’ve ever played Digimon or watched the anime, you know the general conceit of the franchise. The titular critters live ...

The women of Greece’s oldest civilization wove fabrics, carried weapons and wept over their lost children.

From Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing series to the resurgence of Wicked, fantasy books have all but taken over the best-sellers ...

its heroic but flawed characters, its sacrifices, betrayals, grieving lovers and parents, and its powerful descriptions of loss and human suffering, the Iliad shaped Western literature through ...

intentions and character it is impossible to have any certainty, in search of a destination that may no longer even exist. That dilemma is entirely foreign to the “Iliad,” but it anticipates ...

Monty Python’s Spamalot,” the 2005 adaptation of the film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” takes the King Arthur quest for the Holy Grail and turns it sideways as the play spends more of its time ...

Straightforward Indian fantasy without any tropes borrowed from Western storytelling, this collection of classic Bengali ...