The Australian writer’s 1984 novel, The Island, is a hypnotic work of fiction about the border between life and art. This essay originally appeared as the introduction to The Island (Transit Books).

How lucky was I this Friday the 13th? Much more so than Sophocles’ ANTIGONE. Just as she has for centuries, ANTIGONE is working her way through another version of a doomed demise in David Rush's ...

On February 25, the Court Theater presented director Gabrielle Randle-Bent’s production of Sophocles’s Antigone. On one hand, the loose interpretation of the classic Greek tragedy is disorienting from ...

“I’m going to kill Polynices!” Antigone declares triumphantly in the opening scene of “Antigone: A New Trans Play” by JJ Sutton ’22. For audiences both familiar with and new to the original story of ...

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Miami University Theatre invites you to witness a captivating performance of Antigone, Presented by the Girls of St. Catherine’s by Madhuri Shekar, taking place from March 13-17, 2024, in Studio 88.

Since 2019, the University of Chicago’s Court Theatre has been on a fateful journey. As part of their mission to continually bring classic theatre to modern audiences, the Court set out to reimagine a ...

CHEYENNE – A 2,500-year-old tragedy will come alive in Cheyenne this month as Laramie County Community College Theatre presents “Antigone,” revisiting ancient wisdom to confront questions that remain ...

“Ashes fall in August / In October, the blood shines,” Eiko Ishibashi sings in Japanese near the end of “October,” the opening track from Antigone. “Covered with ashes, long winter / Spring is yet to ...

The Swiss director Milo Rau drapes a traumatic episode of Brazilian history with a Greek tragedy on a Belgian stage. By Laura Cappelle GHENT, Belgium — You can’t say the Swiss theater director Milo ...

The Cal Poly Humboldt Department of Dance, Music, and Theatre will present “Antigone” directed by Cynthia Martells. Opening night is Nov. 7 at the Gist Hall Theatre on the Cal Poly Humboldt campus.

A dramatic reading by Theater of War Productions will include the author and practicing nurses who have held the front line of the pandemic. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta It was a tragedy — an ancient ...