“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 ...

Oedipus Rex. The man with the complex. The dude who killed his father and married his mother. Everybody — thanks to Sigmund Freud — knows that story. But what is "Oedipus Rex," the grandaddy of all ...

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

Actors’ Theatre has been moving out lately from its core of Shakespeare productions. With its presentation of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, it stretches backward 2500 years from the present, for a play that ...

Greek tragedy is often treated as pure drama but the surviving plays are only a blueprint for a more multilayered theatrical event. Scholars have speculated that the texts might be closer to libretti ...