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 is suddenly everywhere on the city’s stages. In concurrent shows, Rami Malek is playing Oedipus and Brie Larson is taking on Elektra. By Houman Barekat Reviewing from London At the Old Vic ...

One day a gifted auteur will come along and meet the challenge of Sophocles’ hard-nosed brilliance in “Philoctetes,” which has never been among the most popular of his seven extant tragedies. But ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. It’s election night in Robert Icke’s “Oedipus,” a modern retelling of Sophocles’ “Oedipus the King” that must be ...

So you haven't read Oedipus the King by Sophocles? Well, get your tragedy mask ready as we tell you about this masterpiece that has influenced the structure of western drama for millennia! Ranking as ...

Stockard Channing also features in this London staging of Anne Carson's translation, directed by Daniel Fish, whose radical 'Oklahoma!' rethink drew acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. By Demetrios ...

Only the insensate among us can dwell on the Book of Job without feeling horror at the suffering this man endured as the result of a divine wager. And so, too, one does not finish Sophocles’ Oedipus ...

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