Why? Oedipus reveals that he ruefully fled Polybus and Merope’s lordly home as a youth after a different oracle told him that he was fated to kill his father and marry his mother. Coincidentally ...

Late Show” host Stephen Colbert found that some of the biggest names in MAGA are all using a very revealing word when referring to President Donald Trump. Colbert rolled a clip of film star Mel Gibson ...

But this Freudian idea about obsession with the mother, I don’t know. I’m not sure how real it is.” The drama turns, too, on ...

Sophocles is suddenly everywhere on the city’s stages. In concurrent shows, Rami Malek is playing Oedipus and Brie Larson is ...

The opening scene of the Old Vic’s Oedipus is dominated by a giant backdrop of a skull-like face, eyes shut and rock-like. It ...

Read our review of *Oedipus*, starring Indira Varma and Rami Malek, now in performances at the Old Vic Theatre through 29 ...

Rami Malek and Indira Varma, © Manuel Harlan. The opening is dazzling. A chant of Oedipus. A man trapped in a smoky shaft of ...

Colbert showed a number of other right-wing figures calling Trump “dad” and “daddy.” “Sweet mother of Oedipus,” Colbert said. “If Sigmund Freud were alive today, he’d say ‘he cray-cray.’ And ‘do you ...