To teach is always to be in the middle of the next story. This realization strikes me anew every autumn, as the days lose more light and my students accelerate into the end-of-semester scramble. Then, ...

The Rijksmuseum exhibition raises questions about gender, sexuality, and transformation that it is not prepared to answer.

One day in the thirteenth century, James I of Aragon, not only a great conqueror but a king famous for his powers of memory, made a revealing slip. Having convened an assembly of lords and clerics, he ...

A new exhibition at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is showcasing a sprawling collection of artworks inspired by Ovid’s poem Metamorphoses. The show includes more than 80 paintings, sculptures, ceramics, ...

Who’d have thunk it? It’s amusing to imagine this is what Ovid, the Roman poet best known for his mythological epic Metamorphoses, might say today if he learned that a play based on his work had ...

Talk about a comeback. Ovid, that ancient Roman wordsmith, wrote his “Metamorphoses” more than two millennia ago. Now, this month, there are two productions of the play based on that famous work ...

The cast of “Metamorphoses” makes frequent use of a pool at the center of the set, designed by Jason Simms. Evelyn Chen, top, is a New York City-based actor and dancer making her Berkshire Theatre ...

Metamorphoses is a play by the American playwright and director, Mary Zimmerman, adapted from the classic Ovid poem, Metamorphoses. The play premiered in 1996 as Six Myths at Northwestern University ...