The Parthenon was far more than a temple. It was Athens’ ultimate power move, which combined religion, politics, and economic ...

Watching “Pericles” Friday night in a rapt crowd of fellow Chicagoans, all clearly delighted that the RSC has come back in town for the first time in some 30 years, I was struck by how even ...

With ‘Pericles,’ the Royal Shakespeare Company and Chicago Shakes begin a new transatlantic collaboration Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook ...

Pericles also elevated Athens’s role within the Delian League, a naval alliance of Greek city-states unified to fight the Persians. He maneuvered Athens to primacy over other league members, ...

Pericles (Eunice Wong) marries, seemingly loses his wife (Mary Neufeld) to childbirth, then seemingly loses their daughter (Susannah Wilson), too, ...

The Near & Far Kastellorizo International Music Festival, dedicated to the Greek diaspora, comes to for the first time from ...

Shakespeare’s “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,” is, according to Ben Jonson, “a mouldy tale,” and, until recently, it was seldom staged. In an informal poll of dedicated New York theatre-goers ...

Visiting from England, 'Pericles' brings graceful staging and a teary ending Chicago Shakespeare Theater presents an imported production that gives Bard’s twisty play a dreamy un-reality.

The production of “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,” onstage at Shakespeare Tavern through April 1, is terrific, twisted fun. First published in 1609, the work is a wild soap opera that also evokes ...

Pericles has figured out that the king and his daughter are engaging in merry incest. Thus begins an odyssey of shipwrecks, attacks by pirates, encounters with nobles of other lands, ...

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