Gray first played Persephone Off Broadway, in 2016, at the New York Theatre Workshop. When she decided to reprise the role, at the National Theatre, in London, her younger son was just seven weeks ...

And in the center of it all, the object of this ensemble’s collective expertise and extensive collaboration is one inimitable leading lady: Persephone, goddess of the underworld. She is no ingénue.

Such conduct may charm Persephone's mother, Demeter (Stephanie Burden), goddess of the harvest, but it annoys the other kids on the block -- Hermes, Apollo, Artemis, etc. -- and it's detrimental ...

Betty Who strikes an imposing figure on the Walter Kerr stage. She’s 6’1” without help. And boosted by the verdant goddess Persephone’s heels and hair, she estimates her final height must ...

Beginning on Nov. 12, Russell will perform as the Greek goddess Persephone in the lauded musical. Hadestown is based on the 2010 concept album adapting the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice by ...

Persephone stands for the bittersweet cycle of life, in which regeneration and decay are twinned forces. The myth also has a dual message when it comes to gender roles.

Greek archaeologists have discovered the image of a young, red-haired goddess being swept off to the underworld inside a 2,300-year-old tomb near the ancient site of Amphipolis in northern Greece.

The Lightner Museum has received a donation from Jacksonville arts patron in the form of a 1906 painting by American Impressionist George Hitchcock. The painting is oil on canvas and is entitled ...