What makes this show a candidate for the best solo show in Chicago theater history is that the telling comes at great cost to the teller.

In a new remount of Charles Newell's critically acclaimed 2011 production, Timothy Edward Kane brings blistering rage to this ...

The theater company’s producing artistic director stars in the nearly one-man show just months after collapsing at home.

The team now believe the Agios Athanasios is the previously-referenced site of the Odysseion—the center of a cult of hero ...

This summer marks the fourth time Court Theatre has mounted Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare's “An Iliad.” Based on Robert ...

Does Homer's Iliad really describe the horned helmets of the Mycenaean Era, or was he talking about something else entirely?

Few figures in ancient mythology remain as legendary to this day as Odysseus, the fabled Greek king of Ithaca who devised the ...

While the epic poem The Iliad is generally recognized as a work of fiction, some of Homer’s accounts are nevertheless considered historically accurate. For instance, Troy was real, with most ...

If Trump were one of the rogues from Homer’s ‘Iliad,’ which would he be? Principals of the Trojan War, from left: Menelaus, Paris, Diomedes, Ulysses, Nestor, Achilles and Agamemnon.