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?

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

The Public Theater has released a teaser trailer for the world premiere of Antigone (This Play I Read in High School). The bold new adaptation of Sophocles’ classic begins performances in The Public’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 ...

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

‘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 ...

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

Just 10 years after graduating from NYU — having trained at the Playwrights Horizons Theater School, Stonestreet Screen ...

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 ...

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 ...

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