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Jeryl Brunner covers theater, entertainment and lifestyle stories. In Sophocles’ tragic play Antigone, the title character will do anything to ensure that her late brother, Polyneices ...

In London, they find themselves each playing the same classical heroine—in two different adaptations of plays by Sophocles. Both play Antigone, the obdurate daughter of King Oedipus—he of Freud’s ...

In her novel “Home Fire,” Kamila Shamsie creatively reimagines Sophocles’ play “Antigone” in the context of British Muslims.

And now comes Alexander Zeldin’s ice cold take on Sophocles’ Antigone, relocated to a slick soulless modern living room where Chris, his wife Erica, and two nieces Issy and Annie have gathered ...

Icke is so attuned to politics that even one jarring detail – no campaign anywhere would risk drinking champagne before the ...

Casting Hall’s Fall production of Jean Anouilh’s “Antigone” opened Nov 7th,  just two days after the presidential election, ...

A HARROWING Greek tale is given a modern take in the spiritual space of Holy Trinity at the weekend. Jean Anouilh’s version ...

Avaaz: A Persian hostess celebrates the Iranian New Year in this story of resilience and rebirth; on stage through Nov. 17, Denver Center Theatre Company, Singleton Theatre, DCPA, 14th and Curtis ...

With a device that has become a staple of modern productions, writer and director Alexander Zeldin has adapted Sophocles’s ...