Co-directing, Matthew Warchus and choreographer Hofesh Shechter have created a claustrophobic Thebes, dazzled by the sun and water-less. Its only features are a microphone stand and a lit dais, both ...

A countdown clock ticks down at the election headquarters of a man named Oedipus, a candidate for high political office who has built his campaign on restoring a divided city-state now unable to talk ...

Icke dusts off the classics the way a restorer brightens an old master painting. His latest project stars Mark Strong and Lesley Manville.

“Oedipus Rex” is about as far from a new work as possible, having first been performed around 1,600 years ago. While stories of this caliber and place in the literary canon can often feel untouchable ...

That most basic question perplexes people, just as it did when Greek dramatist Sophocles wrote about the cursed king Oedipus two and a half millennia ago. Screen stars Mark Strong and Lesley Manville ...

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.” ...