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.

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.

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, a small group of University students condensed the process of putting on "Antigone" into less than a month — concluding in a one-night-only performance at T.F. Green Hall Dec. 7.