Gospel at Colonus Review: Sophocles as Rousing Black Church Service
Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s glorious gospel musical, an inspired retelling of Sophocles’ "Oedipus at Colonus" as if it's an African-American Pentecostal church service, debuted at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1983, and has been performed somewhere in the world ever since. It is now at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park for free, only […]