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American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) begins the New Year with Jean Racine’s grand “Phèdre” in a world premiere translation by Timberlake Wertenbaker that marks first-time coproduction with Canada’s ...

A new English adaptation of the classic French tragedy Phèdre by Jean Racine (1639-1699). It retells the ancient Greek tale of the wife of the Atenian King Theseus, who conceived a forbidden love for ...

The National Theatre's production of Jean Racine's tragedy "Phedre," in a version by British poet Ted Hughes, is so full of "woe is me" lamentations that when John Shrapnel as Theramene begins his ...

Carriage House Theater (541 Third St. in Ann Arbor), a community theater troupe, will host a 2014 season kickoff reception on Thursday, June 12 at 10 p.m., following the opening night performance of ...

Consumed by an uncontrollable passion for her young stepson and believing Theseus, her absent husband, to be dead, Phèdre confesses her darkest desires and enters the world of nightmare. When Theseus ...

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The summer blockbuster coming to a theater near you is...a Greek tragedy? Not quite, but a new stage production of "Phèdre" by the National Theatre in London will be getting some extra exposure ...

In January 1999, Diana Rigg (Emma Peel of "The Avengers") and her London company brought Jean Racine’s plays "Phèdre" and "Britannicus" to New York at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Racine (1639-1699) ...