Sophocles News

Today (May 27) in live streaming: Meet the Top 5 College contestants of Next On Stage, a JOy Luck Club reunion on Stars in the House, and more!

The Marsh partners with Remote Studios will present a reading of Caridad Svich's new drama, The Book of Magdalene, as part of a newly launched month web show of readings on its digital platform, MarshStream.

Reading Greek Tragedy Online was created during the first weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown when Paul O’Mahony, Artistic Director of award-winning Brighton based theatre company Out of Chaos found all three of his upcoming UK tours cancelled.

Ma-Yi Theater Company will continue its celebration of AAPI Heritage Month with the closed captioning rebroadcast of Sophocles in Staten Island by Obie award-winning, Ma-Yi affiliated artist Ron Domingo.

Broadway might be dark, but that doesn't mean that theatre isn't happening everywhere! Below, check out where you can get your daily fix of Broadway this weekend, May 22-23, 2021.

Today (May 21) in live streaming: Frank 'Fraver' Verlizzo visits Backstage Live, the Next on Stage Top 10, an Annie reunion on Stars in the House, and more!

Flawed Connections is about Four close friends who leave Yale to start a computer gaming business. Start-up money allows them a luxurious, continent spanning lifestyle, while developing their first game. It is a hit that attracts hordes of devoted gamers and instantly the pressure of follow-up games and personality quirks haunt the friends. This success allows an even higher upscale lifestyle that leaves them in a quandary when disaster strikes.

 KCParks and Recreation to bring Oedipus the King to Theis Park in June.

Less than a week later, Reading Greek Tragedy Online's first live episode streamed, scene readings of Euripides' Helen. From there, performances continued, weekly, throughout 2020 and by the end of the year, the project had engaged 115 actors and academics (who provide analysis and discussion as part of each 90-minute episode) from the UK, US, Canada, France, Mexico, Greece, Australia, Cyprus and India.

Throughout its more than 40-year history on PBS, Great Performances has provided an unparalleled showcase of the best in all genres of the performing arts, serving as America’s most prestigious and enduring broadcaster of cultural programming. 

Resonance is a collection of poems that examine individual and cultural experiences, from the simple and lyrical, to the painful direct, in this complicated life that rewards some and punishes.

The Classic Theatre of San Antonio's next Theatre in the Rough Production, ANTIGONE, is now playing at the Botanical Garden! Penned by Sophocles in roughly 441 BC, ANTIGONE follows the daughters of Oedipus after his tragic demise. This production is an adaptation by Emily Mann and begins in the aftermath of Thebe's civil war as Creon takes the throne. The show centers on the battle of wills between Antigone and Creon that lead to a devastating and shocking finale.

Wright State University’s Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures continues its Spring festival of COVID-conscious performances with an outdoor production of Sophocles’ timeless tragedy ANTIGONE (translated by Nicholas Rudall) at Wright State’s outdoor amphitheatre, next the Medical Sciences building on April 10 at 6pm and April 11 at 2pm. 

Hosted by Joel Christensen of Brandeis University, each episode is a modern, accessible, and informative exploration of a classic text, read in English. The project has intended to create community during a time of enforced separation, to foster dialogues between actors and academics, and to create a unique educational resource for a wide range of students. As part of the project's educational commitment, each episode (both live stream and YouTube hosted recording) can be accessed for free.

Theater of War Productions will create a new hybrid physical/digital model of performance and discussion, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which has just awarded the acclaimed social impact company a $1 million grant.

Antigone is about a girl who must choose between what she believes to be right: burying her brother, or following the laws of man, which ultimately leads to facing death herself.

Two of the plays were produced for traditional theater going audiences. Two of the plays are interracial social issue dramas that present challenges to our times to remind us of the nature of being human. Two were different kinds of issue plays, in dystopian worlds.

It's been a year since Traveling Players “postponed indefinitely” the inaugural performances in their new Studio in Tysons Corner Center featuring local teen actors. 

After almost a year of creative silence, Wright State University’s Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures has come back to life with a Spring festival of classic, contemporary, original and re-invented Theatre, Films and Dance.

Broadway might be dark, but that doesn't mean that theatre isn't happening everywhere! Below, check out where you can get your daily fix of Broadway this weekend, March 20-21, 2021.