Relocated to the backwoods of West Virginia, this musical re-imagines the classic Greek tale. Try counting all the Broadway ...

The Broadway revival of Oedipus, starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, opened Thursday to strong audience reactions and a glamorous celebratory after-party at Cipriani’s 25, where the cast praised ...

With "Oedipus El Rey," Luis Alfaro transplants Sophocles' Greek tragedy to a section of modern-day L.A. roiled by gang warfare. It’s unlikely you’ll be shocked that the title character in Luis ...

The fate of Oedipus ought to be blindingly obvious. That's as true for the protagonist of Sophocles' classic, a ruler determined to discover the culprit behind the crime that has cursed his city and ...

Near the peak of Western drama stand the three Theban sagas of Sophocles that deal with the house of Oedipus: ”Antigone,” ”Oedipus the King” and ”Oedipus at Colonus.” Written to be independent of each ...

It’s unlikely you’ll be shocked that the title character in Luis Alfaro’s Oedipus El Rey kills his father and marries his mother — after all, if you’re familiar with one Greek tragedy, it’s probably ...