The Sea. The June issue of Harper’s is now in the mailboxes (and will be on the website by Tuesday), and among its real gems is a newly discovered poem by Sophocles, assembled from papyrus fragments ...

The easy conflation of god(s) and country-what might be called the dual foundations of justice-is challenged and explored in Sophocles' "Philoctetes". Odysseus's consistent appeal to the common good ...

Icke dusts off the classics the way a restorer brightens an old master painting. His latest project stars Mark Strong and Lesley Manville.

Antigone screening and Q&A with director Sophie Deraspe at the Landmark Theater and hosted by The Wrap. “Antigone” writer, director and cinematographer Sophie Deraspe discussed the inspiration for her ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mark Strong and Lesley Manville star in Robert Icke’s smart spin on the Greek tragedy, with its protagonist portrayed as a powerful politician on election night.

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 ...

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 ...