Relocated to the backwoods of West Virginia, this musical re-imagines the classic Greek tale. Try counting all the Broadway ...

Overview: NYT Connections is a daily word puzzle challenging players to group 16 words into four themed sets.The puzzle presents players with randomly organized ...

Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex is one of the towering works of the human imagination; a play that has captivated audiences and readers alike for centuries. In Freud’s hands, the play became an illustration of ...

Jocasta is finally alone with Oedipus, the man she knows at this point only as her husband. She tells him about being abused and impregnated as a 13-year-old by Laius, a much older man who will ...

2 hours, no intermission. At Studio 54, 254 W. 54th St. Old “Oedipus” wouldn’t seem an ideal candidate for modernization. It’s hard to imagine the jaw-dropping fate of the legendary Theban king ...

Playwright-director Robert Icke drops the “rex” in Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” because he sets the tragedy in the contemporary world where the title character is running to be prime minister of the U.K.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are superb as a doomed political power couple in Robert Icke’s adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy. By ...

A countdown clock ticks down at the election headquarters of a man named Oedipus, a candidate for high political office who has built his campaign on restoring a divided city-state now unable to talk ...

NEW YORK — A countdown clock ticks down at the rear of the election headquarters of a man named Oedipus, a candidate for high political office who has built his campaign on restoring a divided ...

Juan Castano in Broadway's "Oedipus El Rey", Mark Strong in the West End's "Oedipus" and Clarence Fountain in Arena Stage's "The Gospel at Colonus" As it turns out, this Oedipus has a rich and ...

Oedipus Rex. The man with the complex. The dude who killed his father and married his mother. Everybody — thanks to Sigmund Freud — knows that story. But what is "Oedipus Rex," the grandaddy of all ...

Dreams, repression, and a love triangle with your parents? Freud’s ideas shaped modern psychology—and sparked endless controversy. Here's what psychoanalysis is actually about. White House responds to ...