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 ...

Sophocles, Holderlin, Brecht, Malina - four major figures in the world's theatre - have all left their imprint on this remarkable dramatic text. Friedrich Holderlin translated Sophocles into ...

What does matter? Sophocles’s Elektra is consumed with grief over her father’s murder (by her mother and her new lover) and obsessed with retribution, so she convinces her brother to kill them ...

This January, Antigone [on strike] brings a bold reimagining of Sophocles’ tragedy to Park Theatre, tackling themes of human rights, media manipulation, and political discourse. Running from 30 ...

In 441 B.C., the Athenian playwright Sophocles told a similar tale in “Antigone,” whose plot centers on an autocrat’s weaponization of a corpse killed in battle. The play is set in a ...

His mantle was taken up by the playwrights Sophocles, who wrote Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus, and Oedipus Rex; and Euripides, who wrote The Trojan Trilogy, of which only The Trojan Women survives ...