The cast and creators of Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) reveal how they made Sophocles’ tragic heroine the center ...
NEW YORK — A makeshift shrine sprawls across the base of an imposing concrete facade — flowers, stuffed animals, deflating balloons, a profusion of glowing candles. The wall is chalked with graffiti, ...
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 ...
Greek mythology has been adapted into modern-day tales that include everything from Disney’s Hercules to Gal Godot’s Wonder Woman. Yet Marc Pinate, the playwright who wrote Antigone at the Border, ...
How lucky was I this Friday the 13th? Much more so than Sophocles’ ANTIGONE. Just as she has for centuries, ANTIGONE is working her way through another version of a doomed demise in David Rush's ...
The Lantern Theatre’s fall production of Sophocles’ Antigone, directed by Trent Reese and stage managed by Rachel McKee, ran October 17–19 in Conway and leaned into the scale of ideas rather than ...
Sophokles’ Antigone is undoubtedly one of the most famous works of Greek antiquity, known to anyone interested in theatre and ...
‘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 ...
The Swiss director Milo Rau drapes a traumatic episode of Brazilian history with a Greek tragedy on a Belgian stage. By Laura Cappelle GHENT, Belgium — You can’t say the Swiss theater director Milo ...