True North Theatre does not have a theatrical performance space of its own, and that is by design. The plan is to take their performances anywhere large enough to fit an audience, particularly the ...

Much in-demand director Lisa Peterson doesn't shy away from daunting projects. Her most recent show at Berkeley Repertory Theatre was a potent Brecht's "Mother Courage" in 2006. A year later she was ...

Love and war with Achilles, Hector, and Helen of Troy in a hot new telling of Homer’s epic “The Iliad.” Scene from Book XXIV of the Iliad: Hector's corpse brought back to Troy (detail). Roman ...

Homer’s The Iliad is one of the foundational stories of European civilisation. The Iliad is a long poem – an epic – thought to have first been put down in writing in the eighth century BC, though the ...