In an open-air revival on Little Island in Manhattan, Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s musically sumptuous play follows Oedipus at ...

To read the play, to follow Oedipus’ trajectory from first of men to accursed outcast, is to confront the paradox of humanity’s breathtaking majesty and inescapable frailty. But “Oedipus Rex ...

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is traditionally interpreted as a play about the gods' relation to human agency. But this understanding of the text is deficient and misses the point. Instead, and as I ...

When Luis Alfaro (pictured) decided to update Sophocles' classic play "Oedipus Rex," the playwright assumed he would do something about Freud's well-known theory, the Oedipus complex.

This production of Oedipus Rex is best understood in that context—without giving too much away, there is a teaser for The Gospel at Colonus toward the end of the production that might prove jarring if ...

As Freud says, 'Oedipus Rex' is not the myth, it's the story of a therapy ... Sunday and Monday' by Eduardo De Filippo: 'A ...

Aug. 16—ANDERSON — Pride, murder, arrogant leaders and a plague may be all too relatable themes of the Alley Theatre's production of "Oedipus Rex." The play, slated to hit the stage at Gray's ...

The Company Theatre continues its 2023-24 season with the Sophocles' classic OEDIPUS REX, running February 15-25 at the historic Temple Building Theater, 50 Liberty Pole Way, in Rochester.

“Oedipus Rex” tells the story of a Greek king haunted by a prophecy. Despite efforts to avoid an oracle’s foretelling that he would kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus ultimately discovers ...