Why the Oedipus story feels incomplete without the Theban Cycle.

Any elected official ought to keep good stock of the skeletons in their closet, lest they be brought to light. But when the skeletons take the form of father-killing and mother-loving, keeping them a ...

At first glance, HBO's House of the Dragon and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex seem to originate from entirely different realms, one a fantastical saga filled with mythical creatures, the other an ancient ...

“Oedipus Rex” is about as far from a new work as possible, having first been performed around 1,600 years ago. While stories of this caliber and place in the literary canon can often feel untouchable ...

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.

A powerful politician’s night of triumph descends precipitously into waking-nightmare territory in the transfixing “Oedipus,” an adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy from the British writer-director ...

Playwright-director Robert Ickes’ remarkable, modern-dress adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus is significantly different from that ancient version (no Rex in the title, for starters) that Ickes ...