In reimagining the ancient Greek tragedy, Breuer framed the age-old question of fate versus free will in a modern context. To appreciate the adaptation, and for the sake of context, let us review the ...

The Pentecostal setting of the show is anything but gimmicky. It services every facet of Sophocles’ text. The weightiness of appeasing a higher power and parsing out incestuous bloodlines becomes ...

Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s “The Gospel at Colonus,” this year’s livelier-than-usual outdoor theater production at the Getty Villa, combines disparate ritual traditions. Ancient Greek tragedy is ...

As the warmth of spring hits Hyde Park, Chicago’s Court Theatre has responded with a gorgeously produced, deeply inclusive and richly sung staging of a work that draws rich connections between the ...

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Antigone (Greta Oglesby) and Oedipus (Rev. Earl Miller) in “The Gospel at Colonus” at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park (all images by Joan Marcus/courtesy The Public Theater) Church parishioners ...

My advice to anyone going to "The Gospel at Colonus" during its short Skylight Music Theatre run is to not fret about understanding the story. Just let the music and the charismatic voices in this ...

On the diamond anniversary of Greek drama at Harvard, the Harvard-Radcliffe Classical Players are offering a gem of a production. Those who witnessed the 1881 production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex can ...

It is revealed that Oedipus' son, Polynices, has come to speak to him. Oedipus does not want to speak to his son. Antigone requests he at least listen to what Polynices has to say. Oedipus, blinded by ...

Oedipus, blinded by his own hands, has been walking the land with his daughter, Antigone. He is searching for his place to die. As he is near Athens, he seeks out Theseus, King of Athens, and asks him ...