‘What’s up, Kreon?” isn’t something you’d hear in Sophocles’ Greek tragedy “Antigone,” written in 440 B.C. But in Anne Carson ...

Jeryl Brunner covers theater, entertainment and lifestyle stories. In Sophocles’ tragic play Antigone, the title character will do anything to ensure that her late brother, Polyneices ...

Theatre streaming platform National Theatre at Home will release the world premiere of The Other Place, a new play inspired by Sophocles' classic story Antigone, directed and written by Alexander ...

Alexander Raptotasios’ thrilling update of Sophocles’ tragedy draws on the story of Isis bride Shamima Begum to let the ...

There are gestures that carry the force of legend, that reverberate with the familiarity of a tragedy performed a thousand times, and acquire an archetypal dimension. The announcement in an online ...

Sophocles, Holderlin, Brecht, Malina - four major figures in the world's theatre - have all left their imprint on this remarkable dramatic text. Friedrich Holderlin translated Sophocles into ...

“Antigone,” written by the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles (497-405 B.C.), tells the story of a young woman who, despite the risks involved, stands up for what she believes is right. After a bloody ...

Sophocles is suddenly everywhere on the city’s stages. In concurrent shows, Rami Malek is playing Oedipus and Brie Larson is ...

Stockard Channing also features in this London staging of Anne Carson's translation, directed by Daniel Fish, whose radical ...

This play is very loud and never allows the audience a moment of silence to reflect on what they have just witnessed.

which grafts the bare bones and blazing spirit of Sophocles’ Antigone on to a story of two British Muslim sisters torn apart after one becomes an Islamic State bride and the other is left ...