The ancient Greek statesman Pericles (ca 495–429 B.C.) left his mark on the world in far more ways than the iconic Acropolis that still defines the skyline of Athens. He advanced the foundations of ...

This season’s Public Works production is a powerful concert experience of PERICLES, the Bard’s epic about losing and re-discovering faith. Reconceived by playwright and songwriter Troy Anthony, this ...

What happens when the words of Shakespeare and the power of gospel music come together? Something like the magic that is happening onstage at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine with PERICLES: A ...

At a special meeting of the Standing Committee on Cultural Affairs of the Parliament, convened by the Chairman of the Committee, Samos MP, Professor Christodoulos Stephanadis, on “Greek Higher ...

When the gang returns from the Yucatan Peninsula with the ancient spear they think to be the Heart of the Jaguar, they find the town empty! Everyone has been taken underground. Our heroes soon find ...

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“‘Tis time to fear,” Pericles observes on Navy Pier, “when tyrants seem to kiss.” The likable Prince of Tyre, hero of the William Shakespeare play of the same name, has a specific tyrant in mind, one ...

On Friday, for the first time in some 30 years, Britain’s illustrious Royal Shakespeare Company will open a show in Chicago — William Shakespeare’s “Pericles,” now in previews in Chicago Shakespeare’s ...

When Tamara Harvey decided that Pericles would be the first play she’d direct as the new co-artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, it seemed a shocking choice. After all, scholars agree ...