Sophocles may be long gone, but his tragic tale of honor and fidelity is very much alive in Big Dance Theater’s funky, experimental reinterpretation “Antigone the tin can tied to her own damn tail,” opening tonight at the Freud Playhouse. Read more...

English Professor Frederick Burwick kept a secret during the casting process of “Death’s Jest Book,” the Thomas Lovell Beddoes play he is currently directing: he had already been invited to bring the performance to New York’s Lincoln Center. Read more...

After millions of viewers tuned in for the first season of “Sorority Life” over the summer, MTV is back at it again, this time with fraternities representing. Read more...

I remember a time when I had to make a gut-wrenching decision every Saturday night. Should I go out, have a few drinks, and hit on girls way out of my league or stay home and watch “Saturday Night Live”? Read more...

So you thought you’d left that teen angst behind when you came to UCLA. There wasn’t going to be any more weeping in the bathroom over boys. Read more...

Mix a boy from New York whose favorite food is pheasant with a Korean-born girl who loves Mexican food. Stir in the “artsy” new movie “Till Human Voices Wake Us,” and add a sprinkle of a casual coffee. Read more...

Tonight you’re invited to take a tour of the many different sides of contemporary classical music: from the pomp and circumstance of a trumpeting fanfare to the festive mariachi music of a Mexican village to the surreal world of minimalism. Read more...