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…
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Festival theatre, EdinburghA stellar cast in this minimalist new production " complete with shouty, Brexit-era headlines " make Mark-Anthony Turnage's 1980s classic a tale for our timesAfter…
Fun Home and Sweet Charity alum Joel Perez is among the cast of Luis Alfaro’s new play Oedipus El Rey. The previously announced work, directed by Chay Yew, will begin performances…
And now for the granddaddy of them all, Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex"! It's not literally the oldest play in the western canon, but it's the one most people know, the distant ancestor of works fr…
Alan Stanford’s new adaption of the classic Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex is a modern day masterpiece. Sometimes you just know within the first few minutes that this is really going to be good…
Most of us know something of Oedipus, who fulfills a prophecy by unwittingly killing his father and marrying his mother. Sophocles' cautionary tale about hubris and destiny in ancient Greece…
Arcola, London The father-son myth is reborn by playwright Sergio Blanco as a skirmish probing identity and male power that is funny, taut and puzzlingOne of the closing images in this vivid…
Are you a titan of the theatre or have the fates abandoned you? As the Almeida puts on a festival inspired by Dionysus, test your knowledge of Greek dramaIn Aeschylus's Agamemnon, Clytemnest…
The canon of Greek comedies and dramas have played a historic role through time. Some have even impacted other disciplines including psychology. Freud coined the term "Oedipus Complex" that …
Take one-part glam rock, one-part Mad Max: Beyond Thunder Dome, and one-part A Clockwork Orange, and you have Oedipus Rox! at the Maryland Ensemble Theatre. Oedipus Rox! is a modern Rock mus…
Maryland Ensemble Theatre's original Oedipus Rox!"based on Sophocles' Oedipus Rex"is filled with cosmic design and some rockin' operatic heights, but it's a tragicomedy that has difficulty f…
Oedipus is a notorious story, and its plotline of incest, patricide, exile and blindness have passed into common knowledge through Freud's controversial Oedipal complex. It seems odd then, t…
Abbey theatre, DublinWayne Jordan's production unfolds in a frightened village with a flawed leader, where everyone refuses to see the blindingly obvious"How terrible to see the truth," says…
STRATFORD, Ontario " When I first came here in the 1970s for the Shakespeare Festival, gas was sold by the Imperial gallon, rooms were $10 a night in a private home, and even the A…
In his new book, the Guardian's theatre critic has selected what he thinks are the 101 greatest plays ever written, in any western language " so do you agree? Related: Choosing my 101 greate…
