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 ...

In Sophocles’ Antigone, written around 442 BCE, the punishment meted out to the play’s iconic title character—and the tragedy that follows—flow from Antigone’s determination to give her brother ...

In common with the classical Greek dramatists, Sophocles wrote about death, but kept the ugly business of slaughter off stage. Roy Williams’s adaptation opens with an unseemly scuffle in an urban ...

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 ...

With three new versions on stage this month, the ancient Greek classic – and its reflections on authority and devotion – remains as compelling as ever This October sees a rash of productions based on ...

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 ...

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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