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 ...

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 ...

The Company Theatre continues its 2023-24 season with the Sophocles' classic OEDIPUS REX, running February 15-25 at the historic Temple Building Theater, 50 Liberty Pole Way, in Rochester. “The ...

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, IRT is taking another look at the classic Oedipus. “The play is a study in leadership, and since we live in a country so riven by opposing views of what constitutes ...

This double-disc Blu-ray/DVD package offers an ideal opportunity to assess the place of Oedipus Rex (Edipo Re) in the history of ideas about the ancient world. Paradoxically, much of what we think ...

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.” ...

Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex is one of the towering works of the human imagination; a play that has captivated audiences and readers alike for centuries. In Freud’s hands, the play became an illustration of ...

The Music Center opened its doors to the public Sunday afternoon for the first time in nearly 15 months. Nothing much has changed inside the center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Whatever cobwebs might ...