The Latine context also impacts the intricacies of the story. In “Oedipus el Rey,” Jocasta is given a much more prominent, ...

A year after Three Bone Theatre learned its federal grant tied to "Oedipus El Rey" was being terminated, the show is finally ...

Playwright-director Robert Icke drops the “rex” in Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” because he sets the tragedy in the contemporary world where the title character is running to be prime minister of the U.K.

“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 ...

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The actor and author, on board for the company's June 6 performance, believes Oedipus has been unjustly maligned ("very unfair of Freud") and recalls working with Tilda Swinton in college. By Jordan ...

Through various revelations, King Oedipus of Thebes learns he has unknowingly killed his father, Laius, and married his mother, Jocasta. Horrified by the knowledge, Jocasta kills herself and Oedipus ...

Only the insensate among us can dwell on the Book of Job without feeling horror at the suffering this man endured as the result of a divine wager. And so, too, one does not finish Sophocles’ Oedipus ...