“Oedipus Rex” is no small undertaking; it’s a story comprised of dense language, heady themes, and iconic characters. The Company Theatre’s cast is up to the challenge, featuring ...

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is traditionally interpreted as a play about the gods' relation to human agency. But this understanding of the text is deficient and misses the point. Instead, and as I ...

Presented by the National Theater of Greece at City Center Theater, W. 55 St. between Sixth and Seventh Aves., NYC, Oct. 4-8. When the most exciting scene in Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" is the one ...

Thanks to Sigmund Freud, the Oedipus myth has become the modern model for extreme psychological distress, so I suppose it`s appropriate that a film version of this tale of parricide and mother-son … ...

“Oedipus Rex,” a popular play written by the famous author Sophocles, was produced in Athens, Greece, in 430 BC. The play consists of 4 episodes. Sophocles has adopted Aristotle’s tragedy ...

Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex begins with a warning: the murderer of the old king of Thebes, Laius, has never been identified or caught, and he’s still at large in the city.