The Mother of Vengeance: Grendel's Mom The world is full of monsters, myths, and legends and Monstrum isn’t afraid to take a closer look. The show, hosted by Emily Zarka, Ph.D., takes us on a journey ...

So Beowulf dons his armor and seeks out Grendel's mother in her lair, beneath a fetid lake filled with water like acid and so deep no human has ever seen the bottom.

If you’ve been looking for a sign to spoil mom (or hey, yourself—no judgment), this is it. De Grendel has teamed up with a lineup of dreamy local brands for a Mother’s Day Giveaway that’s bursting ...

In my mind, Grendel is an ogre, or like the cave troll in the Lord of the Rings movie when they’re stuck in Moria. In the original poem, the characters keep saying they don’t know what Grendel is and ...

After the two comical dance scenes, the audience started to laugh at the third, which follows Grendel’s Mother discovering her son’s body, but as the dance went on, it lost its comedic tone to focus ...

Marcus Kyd is performing Beowulf: A Retelling with Taffety Punk Theatre Company in the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop from April 4th through 19th. Tickets can be found at the link below.

Inspired by contemporary translations by Maria Dahvana Headley and the late Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, Kyd talks and sometimes sings us through the various parts of the epic — backstory, Beowulf’s ...

From Saturday, March 8, to Sunday, April 6, guests can sit at the table with Grendel’s mother at The Count’s Den and hear her perspective on the classic tale of “Beowulf.” ...