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Who Is Antigone? The 2500-Year-Old Rebel With a Cause.

New York Times 22 Mar 2026
Antigone” gave us the original “bad girl,” but its themes go beyond that. How do adaptations keep making Sophocles’ ideas about democracy and theater new? ... .
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Why Are We Obsessed With Antigone?

New York Times 22 Mar 2026
Antigone, an ancient Greek play, is being adapted in several theaters across New York City. Our critic Helen Shaw explains why Sophocles’s anti-heroine is such a relevant figure today ... .
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‘Antigone (This Play I Read in High School)’ Review: Tragically Uneven

New York Times 13 Mar 2026
Anna Ziegler’s feminist take on Sophocles tries to tie in reproductive politics, but the play keeps trampling over its own ideas ... .
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‘Antigone (This Play I Read in High School)’ Review: Inherited Roles, Tyrannical Rules

Wall Street Journal 12 Mar 2026
Featuring Celia Keenan-Bolger and Tony Shalhoub, Anna Ziegler’s new take on the Greek tragedy at the Public Theater is a sharp, funny blend of the contemporary and the classical ... .
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‘Antigone’ Off Broadway Review: Tony Shalhoub and Susannah Perkins Deliver a New, Explosive Update

The Wrap 12 Mar 2026
Because Antigone buries her dead brother, Creon sentences her to death ... This wild, new Antigone even goes so far as to complain about the Zophocles original ... Antigone tells Haemon that she’s pregnant, and Haemon is thrilled. Antigone has other plans.
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Q&A: Tisch alum on embodying a revelatory Antigone

Washington Square News 12 Mar 2026
They star as the title character in fellow Tisch alum Anna Ziegler’s “Antigone (This Play I Read in High School)” at the Public Theater near Astor Place ... What is it about Ziegler’s ‘Antigone’ that really speaks to you?.
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In Anna Ziegler’s Antigone, the Heroine Meets Her Reader

New York Magazine 12 Mar 2026
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Antigone dismisses backlash over ‘Jalla’, defends use of Cypriot dialect

CyprusMail 21 Feb 2026
CyprusEurovision representative Antigone Buxton said on Saturday that she is unconcerned by criticism of the video clip for her song Jalla, insisting that her priority was to showcase the Cypriot dialect and identity on the international stage ... ....
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The Other Place Is a Low-Stakes Antigone

New York Magazine 12 Feb 2026
(We’ll get another look at Antigone soon at the Public.) Sophocles wrote these works over the course of decades, out of chronological order, and with more than few inconsistencies, but they serve one another well as a unit.
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Antigone to sing ‘JALLA’ for Cyprus at Eurovision

CyprusMail 02 Feb 2026
The song will be performed by Antigone during the main news bulletin on TV channel CyBC1 at 20.00 ... Antigone will also perform her Eurovision entry during the second semi-final of Sing for Greece 2026, ...
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Banning youth from social media a "bit of a fool's errand", Meta says

NewstalkZB 02 Feb 2026
Meta's Global Head of Safety Antigone Davis told Mike Hosking parental controls are the better approach.  ... LISTEN ABOVE . .
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Kosovo Orders Recount of All Votes, Delaying Election Result

Balkan Insight 20 Jan 2026
Election Commission orders recount at all polling stations in the country after limited recount in ten municipalities reveals significant manipulation of votes cast ....
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