Mary Zimmerman, a member of Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company and a professor at Northwestern University, started working on her adaptation of “Metamorphoses” back in 1996. Based on the classical ...

The cast of “Metamorphoses” makes frequent use of a pool at the center of the set, designed by Jason Simms. Evelyn Chen, top, is a New York City-based actor and dancer making her Berkshire Theatre ...

Resident actors at A Noise Within are making a splash — literally. The Pasadena-based theater’s latest play, “Metamorphoses,” directed by Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, is set around a 14-inch deep, ...

Seemingly at random, the 10 actors in director Isadora Wolfe’s reasonably involving production at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn Theatre, emerge in half light from a pool that dominates Jason Simms ...

Theatre Smith-Gilmour, the respected physical theatre company run by wife-and-husband team Michele Smith and Dean Gilmour since 1980, first turned their attention to the classic narrative poem ...

One day in the thirteenth century, James I of Aragon, not only a great conqueror but a king famous for his powers of memory, made a revealing slip. Having convened an assembly of lords and clerics, he ...

Talk about a comeback. Ovid, that ancient Roman wordsmith, wrote his “Metamorphoses” more than two millennia ago. Now, this month, there are two productions of the play based on that famous work ...

Marguerite Johnson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Writer/director Christophe Honoré adapts Ovid’s epic poem “Metamorphoses” into a lyrical and philosophical film of the same title. Honoré sets the events in a contemporary environment, while ...

Frances Myatt has received research funding from the University of Cambridge and the Caroline Fitzmaurice Trust. Even if you haven’t heard of Ovid, you almost certainly know some of his stories. His ...