“Oedipus, Who?,” the title of a play at the Bailiwick Arts Center, might just seem like a catchy name for this adaptation of the play by Sophocles, but it is much more meaningful than tha ...

The Other Place at the National sees the story of Antigone reworked for 2024 and now comes that most complex of men, Oedipus, as presented by writer-director Robert Icke. Icke made his name as an ...

Father’s Day has just passed us by. Late being better than never, here is a belated salute to Father’s Day as celebrated by our old buddy Oedipus in Greek mythology land. If you think your family ...

“And there, you see, in the seventh week, we’ll read and talk about a play called Oedipus Rex.” “What’s it about?” “A man who kills his father and sleeps with his mother.” There is ...

ACCORDING to a Freudian superstition now widely current, King Oedipus of Thebes was pursued by an unconscious desire to kill his father and violate his mother, and the Greeks told this myth with ...

So of course, the producers of the annual classic at the Getty Villa's outdoor Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater would approach Deaf West about taking on Sophocles's OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s “The Gospel at Colonus,” this year’s livelier-than-usual outdoor theater production at the Getty Villa, combines disparate ritual traditions. Ancient Greek ...

Lewis) plays Oedipus in the Court Theatre’s “The Gospel at Colonus.” Michael Brosilow Share If you attend “The Gospel at Colonus” at the Court Theatre — and despite flaws, you should ...

“Oedipus Rex” is about as far from a new work as possible, having first been performed around 1,600 years ago. While stories of this caliber and place in the literary canon can often feel ...