NEW YORK — Here’s the ancient Pygmalion myth: Boy meets rock. Boy carves rock into a girl. Boy pervs on girl. Boy gets girl. And here’s George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion”: Phonetician meets flower ...

From Ovid's Metamorphosis to George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, to the Broadway musical My Fair Lady and the movie Pretty Woman, man has tried to create the perfect woman. Whether he carves her ...

GAINESVILLE — Gainesville resident Lizzy Arnold doesn’t consider herself a playwright. Arnold’s production of “Galatea,” her original play based on the mythological tale of Pygmalion and the perfect ...

Madeline Miller’s Galatea, a short story first published in 2013 and now available in a slim 60-page stand-alone edition, begins with an intriguing question: What if Ovid’s Pygmalion was the first ...

Madeline Miller’s “Galatea” is a 21st century “response” to Ovid’s interpretation of the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea, told from the perspective of the previously nameless sculpture turned human, ...

Lizzy Arnold's original play "Galatea" retells the myth of Pygmalion from the muse's perspective. The production explores themes of female experience, freedom of expression, and the artist's demand ...