They performed before thousands and could become celebrities, yet actors in ancient Rome were stripped of their civic rights.

A 1,900-year-old Roman oil lamp with unusual decoration was unearthed in August from a grave at a Roman burial site in Cuijk near the German border. Archaeologist Johan van Kampen and a team opened ...

Under a third-century a.d. Roman fortress near the village of Ilısu in southeastern Turkey, archaeologist Erkan Atay and his team from the Mardin Museum recently uncovered two theater masks of a type ...

Drama was the ubiquitous speech-act spectacle of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean, and as such, offers an unrivaled interdisciplinary lens into a wide variety of textual, visual, and kinesthetic ...

This approach is still present in schools such as Dell'Arte International. Lecoq saw commedia as "the childhood of theater", ...

Turns out, Roman theater looks A LOT like Greek theater. Today, Mike Rugnetta takes you from our beginnings in ancient Greek theater, and moves on to the development of Roman theater. Which, it turns ...