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 ...

Ancient and contemporary trauma is laid bare by an excellent cast in Nina Segal’s clever reimagining of this 2,500-year-old ...

‘Antigone in Ferguson’ distills the Greek tragedy as a commentary on the urgent questions—including around police brutality and racism—resulting from the death of Michael Brown. Senior Editor and ...

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 ...