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 ...

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 ...

Two and a half millennia since the first performance of Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex, often considered the high point of classical tragic drama, Robert Icke’s ­reimagining of the play is heading ...

Oedipus Rex is a perfect mystery-box play, balancing horror and humour, with each scene bringing new revelations, ratcheting up tensions around who Oedipus actually is. Tension builds about who he ...

Typical is The Play Room Club, sponsored by Maxwell Anderson ... The same story, dramatized by Sophocles and called Oedipus Rex, moved an audience in Athens over 2,300 years ago.

The Quad Cities’ Genesius Guild theater opens its 69th season of free theater with the classic Greek tragedy “Oedipus ...

Oedipus Rex continues on the Don Wooten stage at Lincoln Park located at 38th Street and 11th Avenue in Rock Island, Saturday ...

Their adaption of the three-play cycle began with “Oedipus Rex.” In 2023, “The Gospel at Colonus” set the story of Oedipus’s redemption to a soul-stirring gospel soundtrack. On Feb. 2, Court opened ...

“It’s mind-blowing to realize this play was written 2,500 years ago.” The original text of this adaptation, Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, is widely considered the finest of all Greek tragedie ...

With Edith Hall, Nick Lowe and Fiona Macintosh. Show more Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex begins with a warning: the murderer of the old king of Thebes, Laius, has never been identified or caught ...