Alexandra Grant is presenting the final works in a decade-long project inspired by the Greek myth ...

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 ...

This contemporary makeover of Antigone reimagines the classical Greek myth with a metaphysical twist: a salon of great thinkers from across time conjures Sophocles' play, putting Jocasta on the throne ...

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 ...

This contemporary makeover of Antigone reimagines the classical Greek myth with a metaphysical twist: a salon of great thinkers from across time conjures Sophocles' play, putting Jocasta on the throne ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anna Ziegler's Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) officially opened Off-Broadway at the Public Theater March 11, and the reviews are rolling in! The limited run, previously scheduled to ...

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 ...

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