There are many tragic figures gamers can come across while playing Hades. One of the more hidden (and sad) is the famous tragedy of Orpheus and his muse, Eurydice. While they are separated even in ...

The comparison makes sense: In the myth, Eurydice dies from a snakebite and goes to the underworld. Similarly, Gemma is presumed dead in Severance, although she's really in the Lumon basement, which ...

No contemporary playwright has combined depth and whimsy more beguilingly than Sarah Ruhl. Drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as the Salem witch trials, Virginia Woolf, and Peter Pan, the two ...

Cathal McGuinness is a recent college graduate from Dublin, Ireland. He has been writing short stories and articles from the age of 15. He was awarded the George Dempsey prize for English Prose ...

“It’s a sad song,” Hermes (Will Mann) warns the audience at the start of “Hadestown.” “We’re gonna sing it anyway.” Few stories grow in meaning through the cycle of performance as does Anaïs ...

The earliest mentions of a supreme musician called Orpheus date back to the sixth century BCE, and in the fourth century BCE the philosopher Plato commented specifically on the myth of Orpheus and ...