Thespis astounded audiences by leaping on to the back of a wooden cart and reciting poetry as if he was the characters whose lines he was reading. In doing so he became the world's first actor ...

John Donovan's "The Tragedy of Thespis" centers on Thespis, the figure credited with stepping out from the chorus in ancient Greece, thereby "inventing" acting. Thespis's climb to stardom is ...

Thespis astounded audiences by leaping on to the back of a wooden cart and reciting poetry as if he was the characters whose lines he was reading. In doing so he became the world's first actor ...