Mythlore, Vol. 42, No. 2 (144), Special Issue: Fantasy Goes to Hell (Spring/Summer 2024), pp. 85-102 (21 pages) The paper examines two myth-inspired musicals—The Frogs by Burt Shevelove and Stephen ...

“I knew the authors,” Lane tells Observer of why he reached for The Frogs that day in 1979. Sondheim and Shevelove had already collaborated on 1962’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

Dionysis: “The time is the present. The place is ancient Greece.” Xanthias: “Already I’m confused.” The dialog is between the ancient Greek god of drama and wine (“A little wine gets you through a lot ...

Spymonkey returns to the stage after a four-year hiatus with a brave and typically anarchic attempt at breathing new life into a long-deceased Greek tragicomedy. Aristophanes’s The Frogs failed to win ...

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To kick off its 2025-2026 theatre season, SAN JACINTO College South Theatre & Film has announced an original Y2K spin on Aristophanes classic slapstick comedy, Frogs!, adapted by writer & director ...

It only happens every three years – one of the cornerstones of Western theatre, a play in the original ancient Greek mounted by members of Cambridge University's Classics Department. For 2013 director ...