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This fall, the Getty Villa Museum and the Troubadour Theater Company will present Oedipus the King, Mama! for the 19th annual ...

The summertime is peak season for ancient Greek theatre and the majority of performances present contemporary adaptations in Greek. One upcoming production this July will present Elektra from ...

Oedipus' starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville will begin performances at Broadway's Studio 54 on October 30 with an opening night on November 13.

Even before Oedipus asks his daughter to identify a stranger and she calls him “some jerk-off,” you know you’re in for a wink-wink take on Sophocles. And so it goes, more or less, for five ...

Sophocles’ crew is just as reflective, but the dramatic gravity is stronger. Posner’s annotative antics can seem as inapt as a doctor goosing a patient on a gurney. Advertisement.

After all, he reasoned, most of Sophocles’ original audience had seen service in the long and brutal Peloponnesian War, and Sophocles himself was twice chosen to serve on a board of 10 generals.

Theater of War Productions presented a staged reading of scenes from Sophocles’ “Ajax,” reenvisioned by Artistic Director Bryan Doerries, at Miller Theatre on Thursday evening. More than a production ...

Sophocles has long been my least-favorite of the major Greek tragedians, and Antigone and Elektra are two major reasons why. I have never been able to get close to these sexless worshippers of the ...

Hey, Mom, would you like to help me translate Sophocles into Urdu? In his solo show, ‘Amm(i)gone,’ at Woolly Mammoth, Adil Mansoor embarks on a project with his mother while exploring the ...