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

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

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 ...

Every year as Valentine’s Day approaches, people remind themselves that not all expressions of love fit the stereotypes of ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

2023 and 2024), Antigone by Sophocles (Commission by Athens & Epidaurus International Festival, 2022), The Events by David Greig (National Greek Opera & National Tour, 2021), The White Plague adap ...

Inspired by the true stories of young women from the UK who became so called “Isis Brides”, Antigone [on strike] follows law ...

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

Sophocles is suddenly everywhere on the city’s stages. In concurrent shows, Rami Malek is playing Oedipus and Brie Larson is taking on Elektra. By Houman Barekat Reviewing from London At the Old ...