Back in 2016, Toronto's progressive pop heroes Phèdre toured the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, and Tokyo. Footage of that trip forms the video for "Swipe," assembled by the band's Lee Paradise.

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The first season of National Theatre Live was seen by over 150,000 people on 320 screens in 22 countries. Phèdre will play in dozens of locations across the U.S. including: the Shakespeare Theatre in ...

Even companies dedicated to Shakespeare do not live by the Bard alone. Commonwealth Shakespeare has just staged Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days" in Wellesley, and Actors' Shakespeare Project is currently ...

Actors don't just play great roles. Great roles play actors, testing their strengths, discovering their weaknesses. Rather to my surprise, the great Helen Mirren played Phèdre last night, and lost, ...

Now at the Court Theatre, JoAnne Akalaitis’ production of “Phedre” is bound to be controversial. It has its blind spots, as do most inspired interpretations of classics. One of its key directorial ...

Incest, bloodshed and rumor might be the most notorious qualities of Jean Racine’s “Phèdre,” but what makes the 1677 tragedy almost unendurably intense are its arias of feeling. Debilitating ...

The National Theatre's production of Jean Racine's tragedy "Phedre," in a version by British poet Ted Hughes, is so full of "woe is me" lamentations that when John Shrapnel as Theramene begins his ...