Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The action of "Oedipus Rex" concerns Oedipus, the King of Thebes. Prior to ...

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 ...

Adapted and directed by Frank Galati, this austere yet lyrical production melds Oedipus Rex with excerpts from the writings of Sigmund Freud, who saw in the ancient drama a “compulsion which everyone ...

Aug. 16—ANDERSON — Pride, murder, arrogant leaders and a plague may be all too relatable themes of the Alley Theatre's production of "Oedipus Rex." The play, slated to hit the stage at Gray's Park Aug ...

President Trump and a detail of "Oedipus and the Sphinx" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, part of the collection at the Louvre in Paris. (Trump photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images; "Oedipus" image by ...

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 ...

When Luis Alfaro (pictured) decided to update Sophocles’ classic play “Oedipus Rex,” the playwright assumed he would do something about Freud’s well-known theory, the Oedipus complex. But after ...

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 ...