Since 2019, the University of Chicago’s Court Theatre has been on a fateful journey. As part of their mission to continually bring classic theatre to modern audiences, the Court set out to reimagine a ...

How lucky was I this Friday the 13th? Much more so than Sophocles’ ANTIGONE. Just as she has for centuries, ANTIGONE is working her way through another version of a doomed demise in David Rush's ...

In Sophocles’ Antigone, written around 442 BCE, the punishment meted out to the play’s iconic title character—and the tragedy that follows—flow from Antigone’s determination to give her brother ...

Audition for ANTIGONE & SPEAKING IN TONGUES Equity Principal Actors at Latino Theater Company in Los Angeles CA 05/26 ...

“I’m going to kill Polynices!” Antigone declares triumphantly in the opening scene of “Antigone: A New Trans Play” by JJ Sutton ’22. For audiences both familiar with and new to the original story of ...

Because Antigone buries her dead brother, Creon sentences her to death. That brother, Polynices, is not even mentioned by name in Anna Ziegler’s provocative play “Antigone (This Play I Read in High ...

Performances in N.Y.C. “Antigone” gave us the original “bad girl,” but its themes go beyond that. How do adaptations keep making Sophocles’ ideas about democracy and theater new? Credit...Illustration ...

A riveting take on Sophocles’ classic, Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) reimagines the story of Oedipus’ daughter Antigone through a bold new lens. Written by award-winning playwright Anna ...

With three new versions on stage this month, the ancient Greek classic – and its reflections on authority and devotion – remains as compelling as ever This October sees a rash of productions based on ...

Antigone opens at the Edinburgh festival this month with Juliette Binoche in the lead role. Dark, modern and mythical, the tragedy considers the survival not just of an individual but also of a whole ...

'Antigone,' the winner of best Canadian feature honors at the Toronto International Film Festival and the country's submission for consideration in the international feature film Oscar category, ...