There were multiple versions of “Oedipus Rex,” as the show is traditionally ... Show” in the spring of 2026 at Studio 54, and the play “Fallen Angels,” that same spring, at the Todd ...

The ancient Greeks deeply believed in the power of curses and their ability to influence the lives of individuals and even ...

Man, I thought I had problems.” This is a reference to the ancient Greek play, Oedipus Rex. However, this isn’t just a nod to historical theatre – the play’s protagonist unintentionally ...

Director/adaptor Yura Kordonsky has created an ensemble of recent and current students from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale to invigorate the show.

The two women first met in a lift at work. Kate, a senior auditor, had been poking her phone screen in an agitated manner.

and he believes the finest play ever written is Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex. “I have never arrived at the point of dark despair, which quite often happened to me during the apartheid years.

This uncompromising rethink dares to play fast and loose with one of the ... Festival Theatre, 16-18 August Oedipus Rex From hot-headed excess to cool detachment: Stravinsky’s 1927 Oedipux ...

The script is filled with sharp details — the ... At Wesleyan, Kordonsky tackled classics such as “Oedipus Rex,” “Peer Gynt” ...

The play itself came to drive the Australian-born translator Gilbert Murray stark mad because he knew it so well. It’s hard not to be haunted by the line from Oedipus Rex the critic Hugh Kenner quoted ...