Aristophanes News

San Diego REPertory Theatre welcomes America's premier Latino comedy troupe, CULTURE CLASH, back to the Lyceum Theatre for its hilarious and provocative comedy CULTURE CLASH IN AMERICCA.

The New York FRIGID Festival is an open and uncensored theater festival presented by Horse Trade Theater Group in association with San Francisco's Exit Theatre.

Go Greek this February with the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company when it presents its Classics-in-the-Box production of Aristophanes' famous rambunctious and risqué comedy Lysistrata, February 11-March 6, 2010.

Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre (CityRep) and Oklahoma City University's TheatreOCU present LYSISTRATA from March 5-7, 2010.

AQUILA THEATRE (Peter Meineck, Artistic Director) announced their only NY appearances this season: two performances only at NYU's Skirball Center (566 Laguardia Place). On Tuesday, March 30th, Aquila will present Henrik Ibsen's timely An Enemy of the People; on the following evening, Wednesday March 31st, they will present one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, As You Like It. Featured in both productions are Leandra Ashton, Lucy Black, Howard Crossley, Damian Davis, Lauren Davis, James Lavender, and Owen Young.

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company opens its 2010-2011 season with a clever yet inconsistent adaptation of two plays by Aristophanes.

The Nightingale Theater has a number of upcoming shows in their current season, including WONT FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST, DEAR NUBULON, and THE DRINKING GAME.

Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre (CityRep) and Oklahoma City University's TheatreOCU present LYSISTRATA from March 5-7, 2010.

The Nightingale Theater has a number of upcoming shows in their current season, including WONT FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST, DEAR NUBULON, and THE DRINKING GAME.

Hoi Polloi Three Pianos runs February 25-March 20, 2010, performed everyday except Mondays and Wednesdays at 8p.m.

To little fanfare, amateur Ancient Greek enthusiast Gabe Miner has released his "translation" of The Bohemians, a previously unknown ancient comedy, which Miner has attributed to the playwright Aristophanes. According to Miner, a seemingly indecipherable manuscript that he found stuffed into the pocket of his Grandfather's favorite frock coat has proved to be one of the lost plays of Aristophanes, the Greek master of comedy who lived ca. 446-386 BCE. Miner, whose ancient Greek language credentials amount to "a high-school level Latin class that I took for a few years one semester," explains that this remarkable manuscript had been previously unnoticed by classicists and historians alike because "Aristophanes declined to make more than one copy, in light of the piracy that plagued the ancient world." When asked about the possibility that the manuscript is written in some other language, Miner shrugged and responded, "It's all Greek to me."

San Diego REPertory Theatre welcomes America's premier Latino comedy troupe, CULTURE CLASH, back to the Lyceum Theatre for its hilarious and provocative comedy CULTURE CLASH IN AMERICCA.

The Getty Villa Theatre Lab Series has announced its lineup for the coming season, which will include a staging of Timberlake Wertenbaker's new translation of Sophocles' Elektran, directed by Carey Perloff.

Dallas Theater Center's production of Douglas Carter Beane's contemporary pop musical comedy Give It Up! will close on Feb. 14.

Go Greek this February with the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company when it presents its Classics-in-the-Box production of Aristophanes' famous rambunctious and risqué comedy Lysistrata, February 11-March 6, 2010.

The Nightingale Theater has a number of upcoming shows in their current season, including WONT FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST, DEAR NUBULON, and THE DRINKING GAME.

Give it Up!, the new pop musical from Douglas Carter Beane (Xanadu - Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical; Tony Award nomination for Best Book of Musical, The Little Dog Laughed - Tony Award nomination for Best Play), with music and lyrics by Lewis Flinn, is currently playing the Dallas Theatre Center through February 14, 2010. After making its world premiere to raves in Dallas on January 22, production footage has been released! The musical reportedly has Broadway aspirations for the near future.

To little fanfare, amateur Ancient Greek enthusiast Gabe Miner has released his "translation" of The Bohemians, a previously unknown ancient comedy, which Miner has attributed to the playwright Aristophanes. According to Miner, a seemingly indecipherable manuscript that he found stuffed into the pocket of his Grandfather's favorite frock coat has proved to be one of the lost plays of Aristophanes, the Greek master of comedy who lived ca. 446-386 BCE. Miner, whose ancient Greek language credentials amount to "a high-school level Latin class that I took for a few years one semester," explains that this remarkable manuscript had been previously unnoticed by classicists and historians alike because "Aristophanes declined to make more than one copy, in light of the piracy that plagued the ancient world." When asked about the possibility that the manuscript is written in some other language, Miner shrugged and responded, "It's all Greek to me."

Midwestern Theater Troupe presents THE DRINKING PARTY - A new translation and staging of Plato's Symposium by Midwestern Theater Troupe.

San Diego REPertory Theatre welcomes America's premier Latino comedy troupe, CULTURE CLASH, back to the Lyceum Theatre for its hilarious and provocative comedy CULTURE CLASH IN AMERICCA.