“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

It sometimes strains for relevance in its grasp at youth culture in the age of smartphones and memes, but Antigone mostly impresses with its gumption You can save this article by registering for free ...