The Colosseum in Rome was remarkable for a few reasons upon its construction in the first century C.E. The most obvious was its size. At four stories high and with 80 arched entrances, the ...

A major insight into how Romans residing on the southeastern English coast would have lived has been revealed by the excavation of a historic amphitheater, where thousands would have once gathered to ...

The Arena di Verona Opera Festival opens this Friday, June 5 for the first of 50-plus nights this summer (June 5–Sep 12). Central to the 2026 offerings are six productions of classic Italian operas by ...

The story begins in Greece with the origin of theatre in the cult of Dionysus, the god of intoxication, imagination and altered states of consciousness but also of life, death and rebirth. Theatrical ...