When a student recently skipped Seth Schein's class on Sophoclean drama for the immigration protest in Sacramento, the classics professor believed he had achieved "that teachable moment." Not only was ...

Sophocles was one of the three most famous playwrights of Ancient Greece. He excelled in writing tragedies; the plays were solemn and dealt with terrible events. Sophocles was born at Colonus, in the ...

O gods! Let us take measure of the many vagaries of performing Greek drama outdoors in Prospect Park in the nude; let us dare to glance behind the behinds. For Torn Out Theatre’s recent nude ...

LONDON Like all the greatest plays in history, Sophocles` Oedipus the King is a masterpiece because on every encounter it offers us something new. Sigmund Freud`s interpretation of the play — about ...

A lot of people die during Sophocles’ Antigone. The death of Oedipus puts his sons Eteocles and Polynices on the throne, their deaths spark their titular sister to fight for the latter’s right to be ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write a weekly profile on the Great Books. But that’s not quite right. For, while Oedipus Rex does raise the above problems, it ...

The ancient Greeks knew a thing or two about life amid tragedy. In his new book Theater of War, how Bryan Doerries’s own grief led him to help today’s vets act out their suffering. The first plays I ...

On the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, I went to see two classical Greek tragedies about the toll of war on the human psyche. General Joseph Dunford, Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and ...

Flamenco superstar Soledad Barrio plays Antigone in Noche Flamenca’s dance-theater adaptation of Sophocles’s classic drama. The production, choreographed by Ms. Barrio and adapted and directed by ...