The Performing Arts Department at Washington University in St. Louis will present “God of Carnage,” Yazmina Reza’s scathing satire of bourgeois manners, righteous fury and parental ego, in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre Nov. 16-19.
Can murder excuse murder? In “The Oresteia,” her adaptation of the epic Greek trilogy, contemporary playwright Ellen McLaughlin explores cycles of violence, the ironies of vengeance and the often-tangled search for justice. The Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis presents the play Feb. 24 to March 5 in Edison Theatre.