In the quiet confines of Theatre B, the Mission Impossible theme song plays throughout the room as actors crouch, creep, and crawl down the center aisle stairs to the stage. A complex game of red ...

Last June, after the new musical Lysistrata Jones opened Off-Broadway to good reviews, the show's bookwriter, Douglas Carter Beane, got a call from director Jack O'Brien, who asked, "Did you just make ...

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There's a saying that if women ruled the world, there would be no war. The College of St. Scholastica tests that hypothesis by opening its theater season with Aristophanes' "Lysistrata." In the ...

This is the fourth and final story in a series following the CSUF production of “Lysistrata,” which runs through May 5 at Hallberg Theatre. This story focuses on the dress rehearsal and opening night ...

Written by Tony nominee Douglas Carter Beane (Sister Act, The Little Dog Laughed) and Lewis Flinn, and directed and choreographed by Tony nominee Dan Knechtges, Lysistrata Jones is a pop reimagining ...

This is the second in a series following the preparations for the CSUF production of Lysistrata April 12-May 5 at Hallberg Theatre. This story focuses on set designer Morgan Badillo and costume ...

In its original form, the ancient Greek comedy “Lysistrata” is “fairly naughty,” admits Maine South High School drama teacher Lauri McCleneghan. “If you see a college version of the play, it’s really ...

Gird your loins, Tufts. The Tufts Department of Drama and Dance will premier the great Greek comedy “Lysistrata” on Thursday, Feb. 15.Directed by Tufts’ own Sheriden Thomas — a senior lecturer in the ...

The women of ancient Athens are feeling repressed. They have equal rights, they even have the vote, but now the all-male Senate is trying to control their bodies with a “no womb left behind” act.It ...

The phrase "make love, not war" often conjures memories of the 1960's hippie culture, with its peace symbols and free love. But the sentiment has been around for a lot longer than that. More than 2000 ...