This contemporary makeover of Antigone reimagines the classical Greek myth with a metaphysical twist: a salon of great ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

Currently playing at the Old Marquer Theatre is an ancient tale of one woman’s struggle against tyranny. “Antigone,” by Sophocles, is presented by Lux et Umbra, the theater’s resident company, and is ...

Antigone screening and Q&A with director Sophie Deraspe at the Landmark Theater and hosted by The Wrap. “Antigone” writer, director and cinematographer Sophie Deraspe discussed the inspiration for her ...

A lot of people die during Sophocles’ Antigone. The death of Oedipus puts his sons Eteocles and Polynices on the throne, their deaths spark their titular sister to fight for the latter’s right to be ...

Stripping the ancient Greekness out of Sophocles saps the tension and conflict.