458 results for ""Oedipus""
Four interpretations of the Greek myth have been produced in the German capital, all with resonances for our moment.
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On April 27, 2021, the Theater of War Productions presented "The Oedipus Project: Nobel Prize Summit Our Planet, Our Future."Â The first part of the presentation was a dramatic reading of…
Theater of War Productions will create a new hybrid physical/digital model of performance and discussion, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which has just awarded the acclai…
Watch a theater maker's story of becoming an elected official, Greek tragedies transposed to Chicano America and Daniel Kitson's tour of the ghostly empty theaters of Britain.
The frame lingered some seconds too long on Frances McDormand, playing Jocasta, just long enough to glimpse her listening mournfully, painfully, to Oscar Isaac, playing Oedipus. On a stage, …
Theater of War Productions will premiere The Oedipus Project via a live Zoom presentation on May 7, 2020 at 7pm ET. The cast includes: Frances McDormand, John Turturro, Oscar Isaac, Jeffr…
Insulted and incensed, Oedipus responds as intemperately as Trump when crossed by a politician or held to account by a member of the press. To salve his injured pride, Oedipus harks back to …
Teatro del Sol, in Residence at the Arden, presents 'Oedipus El Rey,' a modern twist on Sophocles's tragedy through the lens of the Chicano experience. Christina Anthony reviews.
The cat is out of the bag as Sonia Friedman Productions recently took to Twitter to tease a new Robert Icke-directed production based on Sophocles' Oedipus. The upcoming play has yet to find…
Award-winning stars Helen Mirren and Mark Strong have signed on to headline a unique new take on Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus, according to The Daily Mail. Robert Icke's new perspective …
It was reported this evening that legendary actress, Helen Mirren, will star opposite Mark Strong in a new English-language adaptation of the Greek tragedy, Oedipus.
Sophocles's tragedy could use some emotional veils in Court Theatre's staging.
Montaigne, quoting from ancient sources, describes a painting of the sacrifice of …
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by Roxy Arecco. @roxyarecco. NEW YORK, NY - Local method actor Preston Roberts submitted his resignation for a production of Oedipus Rex yesterday after finally reading the play, in which th…
By Bob Shuman  A cello stands at the center of This Is Why We Live, at La Mama, which closed September 29 and Oedipus, Sex with Mum was Blinding, at BAM Fisher, which also ended…
King's theatre; Church Hill theatre; the Studio, EdinburghEmotion is pared to the bone in Robert Icke's thrilling new real-time adaptation of Sophocles. Plus, folk tales that leap off the st…
Kings theatre, EdinburghAn updating of Sophocles' classic, set on election eve, has such political resonance you can imagine Boris Johnson not far away
The play has hardly begun and already …
The production at the King's Theatre cleverly explores the line between public and private
The clock is ticking. Robert Icke's reworking of Sophocles " his first production for Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, performed in Dutch with surtitles
Avignon festivalMartin Crimp's version of Euripides' Phoenician Women is sly and violent, while its sphinx's riddles read like exam questions from hell
He might recently have been haunting t…
Millennial Notes Luis Alfaro Recasts Latinx Curse & Legacy  by Lucas Jose Hernandez We hear the slamming of a prison door, as lights go up on Luis Alfaro's '"Oedipus El Rey," a play …
Magic Theatre powerfully revives Luis Luis Alfaro's "Oedipus el Rey," an adaptation of the Greek tragedy set in L.A.'s violent gang world.
GREEK TRAGEDY IN THE 'HOOD Having read Luis Alfaro's Oedipus El Rey, one can see that is a true original, that it possesses power, anger, frustration, political and social outrage, that Alfa…
The production is the culmination of Tim J. Lord's inaugural fellowship in support of a Disabled playwright.
