Antigone is a timeless Greek tragedy by Sophocles (497-406 BC), a drama of abuse of power and moral pushback. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, defies the arbitrary decrees of King Creon and asserts the ...

University Theater’s quarterly short play showcase features one or two performances, roughly 45 minutes each, often written by students. This quarter, the Francis X. Kinahan Theater (FXK) was host to ...

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, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tony Shalhoub and Susannah Perkins in "Antigone" (Joan Marcus) Because Antigone buries her dead brother, Creon sentences her 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 ...

In Sophocles’ Antigone, written around 442 BCE, the punishment meted out to the play’s iconic title character—and the tragedy that follows—flow from Antigone’s determination to give her brother ...

In Ancient Greece, justice often meant benefiting one’s friends so as to punish one’s enemies, reflecting the tribal structure of society. Credit: Jack W Pearce, CC BY SA 2.0, Flickr In the First Book ...

Nikiforos Lytras’ depiction of Antigone and Polynices, 1854. National Gallery, Athens. Credit: Nikiforos Lytras /Public Domain/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License The story from Greek ...