What We Owe the Dead
A poet/playwright reflects on the disturbing, arresting lessons of the Greek plays she’s wrestled with for much of her career.
All Stories About Sophocles
Upstream Theatre's 'Antigone' Neither Avoids nor Exploits #Ferguson Echoes
Philip Boehm’s company debuts a new translation of Sophocles tragedy in a post-Ferguson St. Louis, and the resonances haven’t escaped him.
Apocalypse Avignon
The World Cup meets the collapse Western civilization.
Imagining the Greeks
The world’s oldest plays continue in our time to be staged, restaged, mulled over, written about. What accounts for their enduring fascination?
