Most of us hear the words "Greek tragedy" and run the other direction, imagining endless hours of people in white linen or endless nights of reading SparkNotes for a high school literature class. Yet, ...

Antigone (Aerial Williams), Oedipus’ daughter, has determined that it’s her duty — to family, to the gods — to bury Polyneices no matter how wrong he may have been.

In Sophocles’s “Oedipus at Colonus,” Antigone has always lived on the margins, refusing to compromise. She is the one who suffers with Oedipus, guiding her blind father in his exile.

Tony Award winners Celia Keenan-Bolger and Tony Shalhoub will star in Antigone (This Play I Read in High School), a reimagining of the ancient play by Sophocles, at the Public Theater in 2026.Tyne ...

What Oedipus and Antigone tell us about the crisis in the Middle East Op-Ed. William Marx. Professor at the Collège de France.

Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus, the former king of Thebes, who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother. It was a complex experience for him.

Lee Breuer and Bob Telson's 'The Gospel at Colonus,' a reworking of Sophocles' 'Oedipus at Colonus' with gospel music, opens at the Getty Villa's Outdoor Theater in a co-production with Chicago's ...

Their adaption of the three-play cycle began with “Oedipus Rex.” In 2023, “The Gospel at Colonus” set the story of Oedipus’s redemption to a soul-stirring gospel soundtrack. On Feb. 2, Court opened ...

Jerusalem Post Must EYAL SHEHTER as Oedipus in Nava Zuckerman’s production of Antigone. (photo credit: DAVID KAPLAN) Oedipus and Leonard Cohen meet in Israeli adaptation of ‘Antigone ...

Oedipus at Wyndham’s Theatre review: ... It’s amazing to see it in London now, not least because Alexander Zeldin’s updating of Sophocles’ Antigone, about Oedipus’s offspring, ...