George Strayton, Renaissance Pictures’ Director of Marketing, describes his rise from Hicksville publishing to the heady world of television scriptwriting.

Scott Allie, the editor of Dark Horse Comics’ new Xena title, tells Gareth Wigmore how to beat the warrior princess into shape

R.J. Stewart is one of the major creative forces behind Xena. Here he discusses the origins of the show and the job of writing the warrior princess.

As the wicked Alti, Claire Stansfield spirited herself into the hearts of thousands of Xena fans. And, as K. Stoddard Hayes found out, she loves Alti just as much as they do…

Telling tales is Xena Executive Producer Rob Tapert’s trade, and it’s one he takes very seriously. As Eddie Summers found out, this is a man who is quite literally married to his job.

When Annie Day starts dreaming that she was Xena, television's warrior princess, in a past life, her boyfriend Harry O'Casey decides it's time for her obsession with the show to stop.

Being ‘the peaceful one’ on Xena: Warrior Princess brings new challenges to actress Renee O’Connor. But, as a veteran of The Mickey Mouse Club, she should be able to handle it…

George Strayton, our man at Renaissance Pictures, brings Xena Magazine his regular update on the seasons in production…

Wide shot of Xena (Lucy Lawless) relaxing back on a chair. Dramatic pause. Healer (Ric Chan) announces earth-shattering news. Zoom to close up on Xena as her face registers shock and disbelief. Cut to commercial.

When Aphrodite the Goddess of Love has a bust up with her boyfriend, it’s taken for granted that chaos and hilarity will ensue. Throw in a band of Amazons who are forced to obey men, add a manipulative god seeking power, and you have all the ingredients for a classic Herculean adventure. 

On a dark Egyptian evening amidst the rough stone of an unfinished pyramid, there’s an impressive fight taking place. Hercules and Prince Ramesses battle for possession of the Necronomicon Book of the Dead.

Rob Tapert, Executive Producer of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess and husband to Lucy Lawless, submits himself to our revealing questionnaire.

Ask Renee about everything from the Dawn of Man to Tim Burton’s obsession with ‘50s monster movies (there’s some Xena information here too!).

“I always wanted to become an actress,” Renee O’Connor says with the exuberance of her TV character, Gabrielle, courageous sidekick to Xena: Warrior Princess. “I mean, it was sort of like an obsession.”

Comic book-style superheroes may come and go, but realistic, fleshed-out characters are eternal. That’s the philosophy of Renaissance Pictures, creators of TV’s reigning king and queen of mythological muscle, Hercules and Xena.

Costume Designer Ngila Dickson determines what the well-dressed Warrior Princess - and her cohorts - are wearing.

And then in September 1995, there was Xena: Warrior Princess. From the start this was something very different. A female warrior.

My first phone interview with Lucy Lawless introduced me to an intelligent woman whose conversation ranged from “why I took up fire-breathing” to “how to get inside the mind of a murderer.”