The Huntington's latest show, playing at the Roberts Theatre at the Calderwood Pavilion, moves the action to modern day LA.

In Luis Alfaro’s sharp and vigorous play, the the bones of Sophocles’ tale remain intact. Set in Los Angeles, the characters ...

The Roundabout Theater Company season will also include a revival of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show,' directed by Sam Pinkleton. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer Created and directed by Robert Icke, ...

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.

Playwright Luis Alfaro aimed high when he decided to bring Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” from 429 BC into the 21st century with “Oedipus El Rey,” his contemporary retelling of the Greek tragedy set in a ...

“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 ...

A countdown clock ticks down at the election headquarters of a man named Oedipus, a candidate for high political office who has built his campaign on restoring a divided city-state now unable to talk ...

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 ...

Tragedy and comedy make freaky bedfellows in “Oedipus the King, Mama!” This latest romp from Troubadour Theater Company turns the Getty Villa’s annual outdoor theater production into a Freudian ...