Oedipus the King It seems that director Jonathan Wilson does not believe in art for art's sake. He has placed his production of Sophocles' "Oedipus the King" within a Hartford Stage Co. AIDS ...

Read the monologue for the role of Oedipus from the script for Oedipus the King by Sophocles.

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

As Sophocles' Oedipus the King begins, the people of Thebes are begging the king for help, begging him to discover the cause of the plague. Oedipus stands before them and swears to find the root ...

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is traditionally interpreted as a play about the gods' relation to human agency. But this understanding of the text is deficient and misses the point. Instead, and as I ...

It took nearly three millenia, but, finally, on January 15, 1912 – exactly one hundred years ago today – Sophocles’ tragedy “Oedipus the King” was performed in the English language for ...

In “Oedipus the King,” a plague is decimating ancient Thebes. With AIDS killing off millions in modern Africa, it must have seemed a compelling idea to transfer Sophocles’ timeles… ...

"Oedipus the King" is an Athenian tragedy by the great Greek tragedian Sophocles. In this work, the character of Oedipus unknowingly fulfills a prophecy that he will kill his father, the king, and ...