“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 ...
Antaeus Theater Company’s vibrant production of Sophocles’ Antigone is a reminder that pride without compassion can destroy a ...
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 ...
The New York Times recently published an article on Antigone, the heroine of Sophocles’ renowned play, calling her “a ...
The music and visual effects dazzle in this 2018 update of Sophocles’ tragedy from the Classical Theatre of Harlem It is ironic that this production reconceptualises Sophocles’ Antigone in a future ...
Activist Kay Sara portrays Antigone in Milo Rau's modern-day tragedy about the Indigenous people's fight for survival. Ancient Greek poet Sophocles couldn't have possibly imagined that his tragedy ...
The poet Anne Carson’s translation of Antigone is retitled Antigonick (New Directions, 180 pp., $24.95), as in “nick of time,” Ms. Carson. It’s not the only major revision Ms. Carson has made. She has ...