On March 3, 2003, more than 1000 groups of people in 59 countries staged simultaneous readings of Aristophanes’ classic antiwar comedy Lysistrata. In this mass protest against the imminent Iraq war, ...

Two and a half millennia ago, Aristophanes mocked the macho urge for violence by having women declare a moratorium on sex as long as their men continue to long for war. Writer-director Nadine Labaki ...

Chi-Raq cannot be defined as one thing. It’s a comedy and a tragedy. It’s a cutting edge story and it’s an ancient one. One thing it is not is passive. This film is in-your-face, opinionated and ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Andy Fickman has agreed to develop and direct ...

Storrs: Local resident and UConn student Chester Martin will take part in the comedic battle of the sexes in CRT’s new adaptation of Lysistrata. Chester Martin (BFA Acting ’16) plays the Spartanfield ...

Slovenian filmmaker Kukla, whose debut feature “Fantasy” premiered at Locarno Film Festival and played this week at Thessaloniki Film Festival, is working on her sophomore feature. The project has ...

“Lysistrata,” the widely discussed work of Aristophanes which created a furor when presented on the stage a few years ago, is to be pictured by Hal Roach with an all star cast. The mythical story ...

The buzz is that “Lysistrata Jones” will be made into a film. Even though “Jones” ran a scant 30-odd performances when it opened on Broadway in late 2011, one can envision this bouncily retro musical ...

Slovenian filmmaker Kukla, whose debut feature "Fantasy" premiered at Locarno Film Festival and played this week at Thessaloniki Film Festival, is working on her sophomore feature. The project has ...