The cast and creators of Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) reveal how they made Sophocles’ tragic heroine the center ...
Sean Graney’s been distilling and deconstructing classic texts for a decade and a half with the Hypocrites (and, more recently, with tonier outfits such as Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Court Theatre ...
The ancient Greeks knew a thing or two about life amid tragedy. In his new book Theater of War, how Bryan Doerries’s own grief led him to help today’s vets act out their suffering. The first plays I ...
Sultry Jocasta (Satomi Blair) gives her son the original Oedipal complex in the Flea Theater’s mash-up of Sophocles’ dramas—but the production proves frenzied and unconvincing. Laura June Kirsch Even ...
‘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 ...
When a student recently skipped Seth Schein's class on Sophoclean drama for the immigration protest in Sacramento, the classics professor believed he had achieved "that teachable moment." Not only was ...
Bryan Doerries is using Euripides and Sophocles to help soldiers, generals and drone pilots deal with the horrors of war – and actors from Martin Sheen to Jake Gyllenhaal are queueing up to take part ...
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