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 ...

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

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 ...

“Oedipus Rex,” a popular play written by the famous author Sophocles, was produced in Athens, Greece, in 430 BC. The play consists of 4 episodes.

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 ...

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.

Craig Rich promises those who might think the Greek tragedy “Oedipus Rex” falls under the genre of stuffy classic theater that “We’re going to prove you wrong.” &#8220… ...

Igor Stravinsky`s ”Oedipus Rex” is a curiosity of that composer`s neo-classicism, a Greek tragedy performed in Latin and wearing a mask of artifice throughout. It bears the subtitle &#8… ...