The sweep of Benedict Nightingale’s “Great Moments in Theatre” covers not decades or centuries, but millennia. As if his pen were a time machine, he takes the reader back as far as ancient Greece’s Dionysus Festival of 458 BC to imagine what it was like to witness the performance of Aeschylus’ Oresteia. Then he tackles [...] Related StoriesBen Brantley’s Broadway Mus…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:07AM on February 19, 2013