Like Here We Are, this adaptation of the Aristophanes comedy of the same name is an inventive concept mired by a messy production history, having begun life as a revue performed at Yale University in ...

This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. Edmund Gwenn-s famous quip -Dying is easy, comedy is difficult- seems particularly apt this year when discussing the world-s first great comedy writer, ...

From the writers behind A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes the hilarious send up of Greek comedy and satire, The Frogs. Loosely based on a comedy written in 405 B.C. by Aristophanes, ...

Aristophanes gets an MT makeover in South London. The Frogs, his comedy telling the tale of Dionysos’ journey to Hades, was freely adapted by Burt Shevelove 50 years ago and supplemented by Nathan ...

Stephen Sondheim and Burt Shevelove's musical retelling of the Aristophanes satire, in which Greek god Dionysus seeks to inspire better efforts from current playwrights, premiered at Yale University ...

Stephen Sondheim described the first production of The Frogs, his musical based on Aristophanes’s Greek comedy, as “one of the few deeply unpleasant professional experiences I’ve had”. The show opened ...