High school students across the country know the horror of walking into English class to begin the unit they have dreaded all semester: Greek tragedies. More often than not, the dismal fate awaiting ...

The maternal musical mash-up of Sophocles's Oedipus the King with the music of the King of Rock & Roll, Elvis Presley! ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT? Then come see the only LA theater company older than ...

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. Performances are Thursdays ...

LONDON (AP) — Who are you? That most basic question perplexes people, just as it did when Greek dramatist Sophocles wrote about the cursed king Oedipus two and a half millennia ago. Screen stars Mark ...

Oedipus approches members of the Chorus. If anyone has information on who may have murdered King Laius, Oedipus asks that they come forth with now. A curse has taken a hold of Thebes. Oedipus is the ...

Teiresias tells Oedipus that Oedipus is the murderer he seeks. That Oedipus killed King Laius and the resulting plague is due to his trangressions. Oedipus does not believe Teiresias and feels that ...

Oedipus the King This version of Sophocles' play deals fairly superficially with the bare bones of the tragic story of the king, dragged down to degradation after having discovered that, unwittingly, ...