Efforts like ‘The Oedipus Project’ are worthy, but in an attempt to draw contemporary parallels, they can misread drama and mislead about the present. By Maya Phillips “The hateful plague spreads like ...

Tackling everything from musicals to American classics, from contemporary drama to opera to new plays, Deaf West Theatre is a company that, in its illustrious 30-plus year history, refuses to ever be ...

Lynn Kozak has worked for and consulted with Scapegoat Carnivale Theatre. They have received funding from SSHRC and, through Scapegoat Carnivale, the Canada Council for the Arts. McGill University ...

Can a seminal legend of Western literature be delivered in three hours by a cast of eight performers? Yes, we mean the whole Oedipus family drama — all three of Sophocles' tragedies in one evening: ...

Paula Holloway belts out a song during a dress rehearsal of "The Gospel at Colonus." (Aaron Lucas) Oedipus, the tragic Greek character who unwittingly murdered his father and married his mother, is ...

There’s little doubt that “Star Wars” was inspired as much by Oedipus as it was “Star Trek,” with its lightsaber battles and “I-am-you-father” revelation in “Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.” Some ...

Tiresias is a former glam-rocker turned Freudian family therapist. Antigone just wants to be a normal teenager; she plays in an experimental rock band with her uncle, Creon. Jocasta and Oedipus spend ...

Actors Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, right, perform in the play “Oedipus”, in London in Oct. 2024. (Manuel Harlan, Jo Allen PR via AP) LONDON (AP) — Who are you? That most basic question perplexes ...