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!

In an open-air revival on Little Island in Manhattan, Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s musically sumptuous play follows Oedipus at ...

At Lincoln Center, the American Modern Opera Company contemplates the past, present and future through strikingly different ...

Here, Oedipus faces new accusations—of incest and patricide. But he no longer protests. Instead, he declares his innocence of ...

In 'The Cave of Echoes', Wendy Doniger shows how the stories of mythology—whether of gods, sages, demons or humans—enable ...

Five and a half months after it shut its doors in the midst of the Palisades Fire, the Getty Villa —one of the city’s ...

Star Trek fans probably didn't get what they'd hoped for when they watched this horror flick starring William Shatner, the actor's lowest-rated movie on IMDb.

Electra’s tragic myth inspired Carl Jung’s Electra complex, shaping psychological views on father-daughter relationships.

A Shakespearean-style Greek tragedy wouldn’t be the same without power-hungry tyrants and lots of death, and “Antigone” is ...

Freud's Oedipus complex was foundational to his thought but sounds alien to modern ears. What might replace it in our era?

In this revival at Little Island, the singer and pastor Kim Burrell shares the stage with a team of queer artists.