Staging the Greeks

A new course marries literary analysis and dramatic performance

Published in the July 16, 2008, issue

After six weeks’ intensive study of ancient Greek drama, a group of Princeton students stood the 2,400-year-old amphitheater of the Greek city of Epidaurus, a space renowned for its acoustics. One by one, they mounted the stage to sing, declaim, or chant...Read more

Alice at the opera

Published in the July 16, 2008, issue

Photographed onstage during a dress rehearsal, composer Peter Westergaard *56, an emeritus professor of music at Princeton, directed the world premiere of his latest opera, Alice in Wonderland, May 22 in Alexander Hall’s Richardson Auditorium. He had been...Read more

Mining Einstein’s theory

Mark Alpert ’82 pens scientific thriller in which physicists are heroes

Published in the July 16, 2008, issue

When the theories of quantum mechanics emerged in the 1920s, it quickly became clear that they posed a problem for physics. The theories contained strange notions of duality and indeterminacy: the idea that light could be both particle and wave, and in two...Read more

Reinterpreting a classic

Rob Melrose ’92 and Paige Rogers ’89 present a new take on the Minotaur tale

Published in the July 16, 2008, issue

Most people remember the Greek myth of the Minotaur as the heroic tale of brave Theseus slaying the half-man, half-bull who roamed the labyrinth of Crete. A new production scheduled to run through Aug. 16 at San Francisco’s Cutting Ball Theater explores a...Read more