Athol Fugard, the renowned South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director, best known for his searing critiques of ...

In works like “Blood Knot,” “Master Harold” and “The Island,” he laid bare the realities of racial separatism in his homeland, South Africa. By Bruce Weber Bruce Weber is a former ...

In “Sizwe Bansi is Dead” (1972), Sizwe tried to resist ... The climax of the play was a two-man performance of Sophocles’s “Antigone” for the other prisoners. Antigone had defied the ...

The 'Lion King' and 'Black Panther' actor wrote two searing protest plays about apartheid in the 1970s with his inspirational friend, who died this month.

An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, ...

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater arrives with six Chicago premieres, 'Beetlejuice' the musical returns from the beyond, ...

With Easter fast approaching and mild temperatures continuing in the UK, there couldn't be a better time to look for some ...

Internationally acclaimed South African playwright and theatre trailblazer Athol Fugard died this week. John Kani has penned a personal tribute to Fugard who he worked with in Tony award-winning play ...

The most immediate source of controversy in any Great Books course is its name, which inevitably prompts the question, what ...

The Black prisoners of “The Island” turn to Sophocles’ “Antigone” to understand the ... “Sizwe Bansi Is Dead” and “The Island” have the propulsive energy of performance art ...