Back in college, when I mentioned I was writing a paper on Antigone as presented in both the Sophoclean original and in Jean Anouilh's 1944 French Resistance"era update, a dorm friend rolled…
By Douglas Mayo Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are to star in Robert Icke's adaptation of Sophocles' Oedoipus at Wyndham's Theatre. This post Mark Armstrong and Lesley Manville to star in R…
Old Vic announces play starring Rami Malek and Indira Varma just 30 minutes after Wyndham's confirms Robert Icke staging The Old Vic has found itself in the mother of all messes after announ…
Ella Hickson's adaptation of the Sophocles classic will play The Old Vic next year following Robert Icke's version this fall at Wyndham's Theatre.
The Old Vic has announced the world premiere of Ella Hickson's Oedipus, starring Academy Award winner Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody, No Time To Die) and Olivier Award winner…
Robert Icke penned the adaptation of the Sophocles classic.
Lee Breuer and Bob Telson's 'The Gospel at Colonus,' a reworking of Sophocles' 'Oedipus at Colonus' with gospel music, opens at the Getty Villa's Outdoor Theater in a co-production with Chic…
OEDIPUS REX Listen In Our Time 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 …
Court Theatre continues their series of plays by Sophocles about the last days of Oedipus reimagined as a Pentecostal church service. There is lots of singing, with each cast member displayi…
In IMPRESSIONS: Tabula Rasa Dance Theatre's OEDIPUS REX at New York Live Arts : "Created during the pandemic, Escalante's OEDIPUS REX is a metaphor for our strange times, when we all intermi…
Russell Harvard, Alexandria Wailes, Matthew Jaeger, and Amelia Hensley star in the Deaf West Theatre production, presented in spoken English and American Sign Language.
A BLINDINGLY BRILLIANT PRODUCTION Since its premiere in c. 429 BC, Sophocles' Oedipus the King has been considered the Mount Olympus of Greek Tragedies, largely because it humanizes the them…
Sophocles' masterpiece has been reimagined in an adventurous production in American Sign Language and spoken English.
Russell Harvard, Alexandria Wailes, Matthew Jaeger, and Amelia Hensley star in the production, presented in spoken English and American Sign Language.
Through our telling of the Oedipus tale, we explore how multiple identities and languages become intertwined in a murder mystery. Through her performance as the DeafBlind oracle Tiresias, As…
Presented in American Sign Language and spoken English, the production stars Broadway alums Russell Harvard, Alexandra Wailes, Matthew Jaeger, and Amelia Hensley.
In the world of Oedipus, cultures and languages collide into a memorable yet haunting production. Russell Harvard, Alexandria Wailes, and Akia Takara, three of the company members in our pro…
Deaf West's Oedipus at the Getty Villa is a unique and innovative retelling of the classic Greek tragedy. Artistic Director DJ Kurs and Director Jenny Koons talk about the multimodal and com…
The Deaf West Theatre and Getty Museum production will be presented in American Sign Language and spoken English.
Getty Museum and Los Angeles's Tony Award-winning Deaf West Theatre will present a thrilling fresh take on Sophocles' Oedipus this fall featuring a bilingual production in American Sign Lang…
Russell Harvard will play the title role.
Four interpretations of the Greek myth have been produced in the German capital, all with resonances for our moment.
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On April 27, 2021, the Theater of War Productions presented "The Oedipus Project: Nobel Prize Summit Our Planet, Our Future."Â The first part of the presentation was a dramatic reading of…
Theater of War Productions will create a new hybrid physical/digital model of performance and discussion, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which has just awarded the acclai…