"I'm falling in love with her," Patricia Barber sings in the opening line of "Narcissus," from her splendid new Mythologies — a song-cycle based on the Greek myths from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Given the ...

If you’re inclined toward rooting for the underdog — and there was a time when most Americans did — then you have to celebrate the success of “Hadestown.” Here’s a musical that began its journey in ...

What is love, if not a long road to tragedy? That's a central message in the award-winning musical Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell. From the very start the audience is told "It's a sad tale, it's a ...

New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that ‘stressed poetry’, the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was already in use in the 2 nd Century CE, 300 years earlier ...

The 23-year-old artist Greek got his start writing and producing for rappers like J.I.D and The track, which premieres exclusively on Rolling Stone today, stemmed from thoughts about love distance ...