Since Aeschylus’ trilogy “Oresteia” isn’t long enough, Robert Icke’s new update gives it a prequel. What is merely talked about in “Agamemnon,” the first play in the trilogy, is now played out on ...

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In a choice that is as touching as it is powerful, Michael Kahn caps his illustrious tenure as artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company with that most seminal of Greek tragedies, Aeschylus ...

If “The Oresteia” is a juicy saga of family revenge swelling into public justice, and also the only trilogy we have from ancient Greece, why is it so rarely staged? “People are afraid of them,” says ...

This year, the Westminster Theatre Season will include a Classical Greek Theatre Festival presentation of The Oresteia in their Dumke Student Theatre on the Westminster University campus February ...

London Theatre Company has announced a new production of The Oresteia, written and directed by Simon Stone (after Aeschylus & others), will open at the Bridge Theatre in July 2026. Casting is to be ...

Melvyn Bragg discusses the ‘Oresteia’, the first of the Classical tragedies that come out of fifth century Athens. It is a tale of homecoming, murder, bloody vengeance and the establishment of Law.