Elizabeth McKoy’s new musical, set during the AIDS crisis, will receive its world premiere at the world’s largest performing ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We meet Antigone—star of the eponymous play by Sophocles and a new translation by Anne Carson—on an edge of the world, a pixelated but still windswept shore, as she urgently announces the news and her ...

The Genesius Guild is continuing its 70th anniversary season with free outdoor performances of Sophocles’ Antigone in Lincoln Park, a production that honors the Guild’s origins and features its annual ...

Performances in N.Y.C. “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? Credit...Illustration ...

At the fourth and final night of the Canadian Screen Awards, Quebec filmmaker Sophie Deraspe's Antigone, a modern adaption of the ancient Greek play, won best picture, along with four other awards.