MURDEROUS GODDESS: Psyche is an "Greek-myth feast" of an opera about an envious goddess named Aphrodite (aka Venus) who has it in for a lovely human named Psyche (duh). Read more about Garrett Fisher's music and Thom Schramm's libretto here, and before you go we recommend you watch Snow White and the Seven Dwarves to get you psyched (HA!) up for the opera's themes. more ›

We were really looking forward to seeing Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice (at ACT through October 5, tickets $10-$55). Ruhl's a Pulitzer prize finalist and a MacArthur "genius" grant winner, and we've long been fascinated by the Greek tale of not counting your dead chicks before they're hatched. Maybe we'd love it; maybe we'd hate it. We didn't expect boredom. But that's what we got. more ›