What do Greek tragedy and gospel choirs have in common? A lot, it turns out. Both feature powerful oration, an onstage chorus commenting and responding, and audience participation, to name a few. In ...

The New Works Play Lab aims to give graduate student-actors in the FSU/Asolo Conservatory experience with developing a new ...

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Revered British actors Lesley Manville and Mark Strong re-imagine “Oedipus Rex,” the ancient world’s most famous tragedy, as ...

So here we are at the holiest of the theater's holies: Greek tragedy. Angels seldom tread in this territory; the Greeks raise dramaturgical challenges -- rigid dialogue and peculiar chorus, for ...

Is a young man doomed to destiny or can he overcome his fate? Since the play “Oedipus El Rey” at the San Diego Rep is based on a classic Greek tragedy “Oedipus Rex,” we all know what the answer will ...

Luis Alfaro takes “Oedipus Rex” and moves it up a few millennia to the streets of present-day Los Angeles. He calls his new adaptation “Oedipus el Rey,” but a more apt title would be “Oedipus Sex.” ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write a weekly profile on the Great Books. But that’s not quite right. For, while Oedipus Rex does raise the above problems, it ...