Regular attendees of the Getty Villa’s annual summer show are in for a change of pace this season. Considering the Villa’s proximity to the fires earlier this year, it feels fitting that Oedipus the ...

The collision of fate and free will, curse and conduct in Sophocles’ play “Oedipus the King” is a spectacle of self-destruction that resonates through the millennia. Though it may sound incongruous, ...

Tragedy and comedy make freaky bedfellows in “Oedipus the King, Mama!” This latest romp from Troubadour Theater Company turns the Getty Villa’s annual outdoor theater production into a Freudian ...

How does a play written in the 5th century B.C. still get produced in 2010? A play that's 2,500 years old and has never really left our collective consciousness? A play that's so famous, Freud used it ...

Academy Award winner Robert DeNiro visited Mark Strong, Lesley Manville and the cast of Oedipus on Broadway. See photos of DeNiro with the cast!

The ruler of a city ravaged by plague must solve the murder of his predecessor, and in doing so solve the riddles of his own hidden past. This Ancient Greek tragedy – written by Sophocles in the 5th ...