On Wednesday, the Court Theatre announced its production lineup for 2019-20, marking its 65th season. Things kick off with a staging of August Wilson's "King Hedley," directed by Ron OJ Pars…
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The cast   photo credit: Joan Marcus Luis Alfaro's "Oedipus El Rey" is one of the more exciting of the new plays to open Off Broadway so far this season. A collaboration between Th…
A thrilling new take on a classic Greek tragedy, "Oedipus El Rey," will be performed at The Public Theater in New York.Set in South Central LA, the play reimagines Oedipus as a troubled Lati…
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That Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother is fated and " 2,500 years after Sophocles wrote Oedipus Rex " familiar. But Luis Alfaro's modern adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy, set…
Ran Xia reviews Luis Alfaro's steamy adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy, set in So. Central L.A. The post Review: Oedipus El Rey at The Public Theater appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
When Sophocles' OEDIPUS REX was first performed over 400 years B.C., the Greek chorus that opened the play wore the traditional identical masks. But in Luis Alfaro's contemporary adaptation,…
Classic plays are always reconsidered in terms of the time in which they're revived. Right now, it's understandable that
The Shiva Theater which is a part of Public Theater will be hosting the play titled 'Oedipus El Rey' that will be running through November 19, 2017. The playwright Luis Alfaro reimagines the…
Luis Alfaro's play Oedipus El Rey, a magnetic new take on the Greek tragedy Oedipus, opened at the Public Theater on October 24. Juan Castano, Sandra Delgado, Julio Monge, Brian Quijada,…
When you enter the Public's Shiva Theater for Oedipus El Rey, the setting of Luis Alfaro's transposition of Sophocles's tragedy becomes immediately and elegantly clear. The Shiva is a wide, …
Juan Castano stars as Oedipus in Luis Alfaro's adaptation of Oedipus Rex.
The tragic hero, played by Juan Castano, is re-imagined as a troubled Latino in Luis Alfaro’s electric play.
Luis Alfaro's "Oedipus El Rey" puts sex and violence front and center as it considers the fate of a young man shaped by the prison system.
See what critics thought of Luis Alfaro’s electric new take on the Greek tragedy.
The Public Theater's Oedipus El Rey, written by Luis Alfaro and directed by Chay Yew, is being presented in collaboration with The Sol Project, running through Sunday, December 3 with an off…
Also compelling is one of Oedipus's final questions, "Do we have to believe everything they tell us?" Equally compelling is the question of the Coro, "Do we lay down and take what the world …
Luis Alfaro puts a new spin on an ancient tale.
Bringing one of the classic Greek myths to life for a modern audience is a tricky venture.
A REY OF SUNSHINE ENDS UP CLOUDY Director Chay Yew mounts a spectacular production of Luis Alfaro's Oedipus El Rey, a reworking of Sophocles' tragedy set in the Barrio of present-day Los Ang…
Luis Alfaro's "Oedipus El Rey' is an intense and inventive take on a classic; also reviewed: "The Last Match," by Anna Ziegler and "Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train by Stephen …