Anna Ziegler’s feminist take on Sophocles tries to tie in reproductive politics, but the play keeps trampling over its own ideas.

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 ...

Featuring Celia Keenan-Bolger and Tony Shalhoub, Anna Ziegler’s new take on the Greek tragedy at the Public Theater is a ...

Because Antigone buries her dead brother, Creon sentences her to death. That brother, Polynices, is not even mentioned by ...

The Public's world premiere of Antigone (This Play I Read in High School), by Anna Ziegler and directed by Tyne Rafaeli, just ...

The Public Theater's world premiere of Antigone (This Play I Read in High School), by Anna Ziegler and directed by Tyne Rafaeli, opens tonight. The reviews are in for the starry production. See what ...

Two years ago, the company took a crack at Emily Mann’s adaptation of Sophocles’ classic Greek play. During its second week of rehearsal, the production was canceled due to the novel coronavirus ...

‘What’s up, Kreon?” isn’t something you’d hear in Sophocles’ Greek tragedy “Antigone,” written in 440 B.C. But in Anne Carson’s 2015 translation, it’s part of the way she updates the language. It also ...

In 2017, I saw the young Chicago actress Aeriel Williams in “Black Pearl” at the Black Ensemble Theatre, a show about Josephine Baker. I remember thinking she was the kind of phenomenal new ...

Roy Williams' adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone is currently on tour The world Williams’ characters inhabit is very different from the Theban court of Sophocles‘ play. This is Antigone set in an ...

The Summerseat Players, a local theatre group based at The Theatre Royal in Ramsbottom, will be staging Greek tragedy 'Antigone' this month.