Gibbins’ claustrophobic staging of Bartók’s opera of dark symbolism is paired with his brand new production of Stravinsky’s psychological drama ...

“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 ...

With its brave double bill of Bluebeard’s Castle and Oedipus Rex, WNO shows a sense of adventure amid its straitened circumstances ...

Maybe they should just call it "Eddie." 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Trump and a detail of "Oedipus and the Sphinx" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, part of the collection at the Louvre in ...

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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 ...

Sophocles’s “Oedipus Rex” predates us by approximately 2,500 years. By today’s standards, it should have little, if anything, to teach us. After all, it does not speak to the realities of contemporary ...

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 ...