Personal history emerges by painful degrees in “Oedipus,” whose language and story, the actress Lesley Manville says, “wreck me every time.” ...

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.

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.” ...

Lesley Manville is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut in “Oedipus,” but there are a few quirks of New York theatergoing she could do without. For starters, there’s the applause that greets her ...

LONDON: Like all the greatest plays in history, Sophocles’ Oedipus the King is a masterpiece because on every encounter it offers us something new. Sigmund Freud’s interpretation of the play — about ...

The story goes that Peter Brook's production of Oedipus Rexat London's Old Vic Theater in 1968 infuriated lots of people, even fellow theater genius Laurence Olivier. The main object of offense? A ...

Craig Wright, apparently thinking that we haven’t gotten the message from Sophocles’ “Oedipus the King,” has taken it upon himself to clarify it by updating the action. But for all its contemporary ...

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.” ...