Antigone was the daughter of Oedipus, King of Thebes. After the dramatic end and disappearance of her father who had blinded himself, her uncle Creon succeeded to the throne. Antigone’s two brothers, ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Anna Ziegler’s feminist take on Sophocles tries to tie in reproductive politics, but the play keeps trampling over its own ideas. By Helen Shaw ...

A plane circling over Pittsburgh seems an unlikely place to begin a production of a Greek tragedy, albeit a contemporary and considerably reimagined one. But that’s where “Antigone (This Play I Read ...

One of the theatrical canon’s most lauded heroines, Antigone, is back on a major stage, now wearing a black leather jacket and a punk plaid skirt. The world premiere of Anna Ziegler’s adaptation 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 ...

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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 ...

A riveting take on Sophocles’ classic, Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) reimagines the story of Oedipus’ daughter Antigone through a bold new lens. Written by award-winning playwright Anna ...

One reason this is such a wonderful play is that it eschews the bloodletting of other tragedies, but feeds off the memory That it does not wholly deliver is due, surprisingly, to its star. Juliette ...

The Australian writer’s 1984 novel, The Island, is a hypnotic work of fiction about the border between life and art. This essay originally appeared as the introduction to The Island (Transit Books).