Written in the 5th century BCE by one of the greatest ancient Greek playwrights, Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex is a masterpiece of theatrical construction, fraught with horrific, methodically realized ...

Sophocles is suddenly everywhere on the city’s stages. In concurrent shows, Rami Malek is playing Oedipus and Brie Larson is ...

will leave the theatre convinced again that Aristotle could not have picked a better paradigm of elemental power and dramatic impact than Oedipus Rex. To take this production on its own terms ...

It’s just the way the mind works. When we watch or read Oedipus Rex, we identify with Oedipus, become him through a process called neural coupling, and experience the peripeteia as our own.

What oracle could have predicted that Freddie Mercury and Oedipus Rex might cross paths? Yet that’s exactly what’s happening now at London’s Old Vic. The ancient King of Thebes, famed for ...

Imagine stepping into the theatre and being instantly enveloped by a pulsing, musical heartbeat—an unmistakable sign that you ...

Sudden blackouts blind the audience, but set design is the most interesting thing about this unbalanced production of the ...

The question of whether Rami Malek can actually act has always hung over this most idiosyncratic of performers, whose Oscar ...