Even if you have neither read nor seen Oedipus Rex, it’s likely you know its big twist: Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother. It’s a shocking twist, and it exemplifies the genre of ancient ...

He’s a Public Advocate for All Seasons. Jumaane Williams, the city’s top public watchdog, will take the stage in October, when he is scheduled to appear in all three plays of Sophocles’ Oedipus ...

Court Theatre will present Sophocles’s timely masterwork, Antigone. Directed by Associate Artistic Director Gabrielle Randle-Bent and featuring Founding Artistic Director Nicholas Rudall’s translation ...

This summer marks the start of a three-year event for the members of the Genesius Guild. Their latest play, the ancient "Oedipus Rex," marks the beginning of a three-part series in which the guild ...

Theatre aficionados of Chittagong were in for a treat on Friday evening as they experienced Greek Trilogy, a combination of three classic Greek tragedies – "Oedipus", "Oedipus at Colonus" and ...

Throughout Burning Coal Theatre Company’s The Greeks, Ian Finley and Alex Tobey’s nimble and strikingly contemporary adaptation of Sophocles’s Theban trilogy, the playwrights remind us that the gods ...

LONDON (Reuters) - It takes a while for Oedipus, in Sophocles's play based on the tragic Greek myth about the King of Thebes, to catch on that he's the very person the Oracles are talking about who ...

2 ICYMI: Next On Stage: Season 5- Meet the Top 15 3 ICYMI: Watch the Next On Stage: Season 6 Premiere Oedipus seeks to cure his city of a mysterious plague by discovering the murderer of the former ...

It took nearly three millenia, but, finally, on January 15, 1912 – exactly one hundred years ago today – Sophocles’ tragedy “Oedipus the King” was performed in the English language for the first time ...