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

Playwright-director Robert Icke drops the “rex” in Sophocles' “Oedipus Rex” because he sets the tragedy in the contemporary ...

That's according to the critics anyway, who are lavishing praise on the West End import, which stars Mark Strong and Lesley ...

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What do Greek tragedy and gospel choirs have in common? A lot, it turns out. Both feature powerful oration, an onstage chorus commenting and responding, and audience participation, to name a few. In ...

So here we are at the holiest of the theater's holies: Greek tragedy. Angels seldom tread in this territory; the Greeks raise dramaturgical challenges -- rigid dialogue and peculiar chorus, for ...

Luis Alfaro takes “Oedipus Rex” and moves it up a few millennia to the streets of present-day Los Angeles. He calls his new adaptation “Oedipus el Rey,” but a more apt title would be “Oedipus Sex.” ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write a weekly profile on the Great Books. But that’s not quite right. For, while Oedipus Rex does raise the above problems, it ...