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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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‘The Other Place’: Tobias Menzies and Emma D’Arcy in a Psychosexual Sophocles Update

New York Times 12 Feb 2026
In Alexander Zeldin’s naturalistic adaptation of “Antigone,” Tobias Menzies and Emma D’Arcy star as a feuding uncle and niece ... .
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Professor Sophocleous honoured with rank of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France

CNA 26 Jan 2026
Sophocles Sophocleous, was honored with the rank of Officer (Officier) of the ...
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‘Oedipus’ Star Lesley Manville on Intimacy Coordinators, Modernizing Sophocles for the Epstein Era and Making ...

Variety 16 Jan 2026
For starters, there’s the applause that greets her when she first enters.
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From War Hero to Academic Pioneer: The Genesis of Modern Greek at Harvard

Greek Reporter 12 Dec 2025
And my only aspiration for now is limited to my ability to say that, first myself among all lovers of knowledge and the arts, I instigated in the Americans the desire to learn the vernacular.” The Sophocles era at Harvard.
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