Live from Mount Olympus Season 6: Theseus and Ariadne Premieres in April 2025
Get ready for one of our most thrilling seasons yet! “Live from Mount Olympus” returns on April 22nd with Season 6: “Theseus & Ariadne,” an audio adventure filled with heroes, romance, and the enduring power of Greek mythology. Hermes—the quick-witted god of storytellers, travelers, and thieves, voiced by Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winner André De Shields—again guides us through Theseus and Ariadne’s legendary myth.
When King Minos of Crete demands fourteen Athenian tributes to feed to the Minotaur, Prince Theseus and a spirited group of teenagers embark on an extraordinary journey. Meanwhile, Minos’ daughter, Princess Ariadne, is expected to stand by as these tributes meet their doom. But fate takes a turn when the mischievous god of love, Eros, strikes Theseus and Ariadne with his arrows, intertwining their destinies. Will these young heroes defy the odds and alter the course of history?
“Live from Mount Olympus” is a dramatic, audio-rich adventure designed for tweens and listeners of all ages. A production of the Onassis Foundation, “Live from Mount Olympus” is created and produced by Peabody Award-winning showrunner Julie Burstein and co-produced by the Brooklyn-based theater ensemble The TEAM. The series is directed by Tony Award-winner Rachel Chavkin, Zhailon Levingston, and Keenan Tyler Oliphant. Karen Brooks Hopkins is the Executive Producer.
From the terrifying encounter with the Minotaur to the unforgettable drama of the bull dance, “Theseus & Ariadne” transports listeners on the suspenseful adventure of one of Greek mythology’s most memorable tales. With dynamic storytelling and immersive sound design, this season reimagines an ancient myth, bringing its timeless drama to life in a fresh and contemporary way.
“Live from Mount Olympus” is distributed by PRX. Season 6 premieres on April 22, 2025.
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Founded in 2004, the TEAM is a Brooklyn-based experimental theatre collective spirited by some of the wildest and deepest artists working today. Once described by The Guardian as “theatrical excavators of American culture, American dreams, and the American psyche,” the TEAM collaboratively creates new works about the experience of living in the United States today to generate dialogue about our nation’s past, present, and future through production and touring. They believe how they make is as important as what they make, and their producing practices strive to embody values of collective liberation.
The TEAM has created and toured 12 original works. The work has been seen in New York at the Public Theater, PS122, Vineyard Theatre, the New Ohio Theatre, and The Bushwick Starr; nationally at ArtsEmerson, A.R.T., Walker Art Center, Playmakers Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Virginia Tech, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; and internationally at the National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Barbican, Almeida Theatre, and Battersea Arts Centre in London; Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre; Culturgest in Lisbon; the Salzburg Festival; Galway Festival; Perth International Arts Festival; and Hong Kong Arts Festival. They are four-time winners of the Scotsman Fringe First Award, winners of the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize, the Herald Angel (2011), the Edinburgh Total Theatre Award (2008), the Best Production Dublin Fringe Award (2007), and were nominated for a Drama League Award for Outstanding Musical (2012).
The TEAM is currently supporting six seedlings of new works in its Petri Projects lab and is developing Reconstructing (Still Working but the Devil Might Be Inside), a new theatrical work that explores the possibility (and value) of intimacy between Black, POC, and white artists as they work to move through history together in the aftermath of slavery. https://theteamplays.org/
