Brooklyn, N.Y. — "The Bacchae," a Greek tragedy by Euripides, will be staged at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus at the end of April and in early May.

The production, sponsored by the Campus’s Department of Communication Studies, Performance Studies and Theatre, is directed by Kameron Steele. Performances will take place at the Campus’s Triangle Theatre, on Wednesday, April 28, to Saturday, May 1, at 8 p.m.; Sunday, May 2, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $12; with student ID, $10.

In "The Bacchae," Pentheus, king of Thebes, seeks to put down the new worship of the god Dionysus, which is turning the heads of his female subjects. The offended Dionysus persuades Pentheus to dress himself in the garb of a Bacchante so that he may pry into the sacred mysteries. Then, disguised as a stranger, Dionysus leads the king to the mountains, where he delivers him into the hands of the Maenads, female devotees of Bacchus, who tear him limb from limb.

The director of the theatre is professor John Sannuto. For more information, call (718) 488-1252; for reservations, call (718) 488-1089.

Long Island University opened its Brooklyn Campus in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. Some 30,000 students currently are enrolled at the university’s three residential and three regional campuses, including more than 11,000 at the Brooklyn Campus. Located at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, the Campus is accessible to all major bus and subway routes and the Long Island Rail Road.