One of our greatest actors discusses the role of Oedipus that he plays at the National with one of our most astute psychoanalyts
Frank Galati grows feverish as he explains the compulsion at work in that cornerstone of Western drama, Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex."
ROMANCE novels and Greek tragedies get Fringe Festival spins in "The Boy in the Basement" and "Too Much Trouble," respectively. But while these takeoffs may intrigue aficionados, neither sta…
"Oedipus" is the most ambitious play undertaken by Theater by the Blind since it was founded, in 1979.
SWEET A female chorus recites in unison Sophocles’ meditations on the action, sometimes performing to Taylor Fisher’s choreography of arms flung from torsos simultaneously, or th…
In George Hunka’s “What She Knew” at Manhattan Theater Source, Jocasta holds forth about blood, pestilence and sex.
While ripe with ideas ranging from what theater means to the depths of human denial, this show flirts with theatrical power, but too rarely emerges from its purposefully clinical approach to…
An innovative adaptation of the Oedipus myth from Ireland's Peter Pan Theatre.
From its opening nudity, "Oedipus Loves You" is that kind of aggressively different show that makes Off-Broadway nuthouse PS 122 either A) a ton of weird fun, or B) an exercise in how much c…
Includes interview with Marie Jones ("Stones In His Pockets").