Sophocles’ Electra at Poreia Theatre examines questions of injustice and power
How relevant is Greek mythology to the moral dilemmas we face today? In Tarlow’s powerful staging of Electra at the Poreia Theatre, the play atte...
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Mummenschanz offers 90 minutes of wordless wonder
No words. No music. This theatre production coming to Athens turns ins...
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Plan Ahead for the Athens and Epidaurus Festival
Spread across 5 months, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival has always m...
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Get ready for an outpouring of creative energy at The Rolex Art Festival this Week
Rolex chose Athens to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. The main event and the pre-festival from May 22 to 28, 2023 in multiple venues across Athens feature a dazzling array of works by 60 Rolex protégés and mentors – many of them living legends in the arts. Get ready for a week of perfo...
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Greek Opera wows with a bold and beautiful season of innovation
Alexandros Efklidis has run the GNO’s ground-breaking alterative stage at the glittering new Stavros Niarchos Cultural Centre since it opened in 2017, a gift from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to the Greek state. In this time, the opera house has emerged from the side-lines of musical theatre to become one the world’s most exciting and ...
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Remembering Major Sofia Vembo, the ‘Songstress of Victory’
Her haunting bass voice and rousing lyrics of hope and inspiration were wartime anthems for Greek troops. On the anniversary of her death, Insider celebrates the courageous chanteuse Sofia Vembo, who defied German orders to entertain young Greek soldiers - often undercover - and remains a national treasure for generations of Greeks; still...
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