Bloody King Oedipus

01/05/2020

Oedipus is a Best Bet!

Our staff picks the best things to do this week — with a look ahead.

12/22/2019

The roaming theatre podcast coming to you from the geographical center of the American theatre.

12/22/2019

A musical theatre blog chronicling the work of New Line Theatre, the only alternative musical theatre company in the country.

12/13/2019

http://www.newlinetheatre.com/oedipus-reading.html

12/08/2019

Rap Master Oedipus

Watch the Ancient Greek hero Oedipus tell his famous story in a rap song! Brought to you by http://literatureandhistory.com, home of the Literature and Histo...

12/07/2019

Here's a 1957 version of Oedipus the King from the Stratford Festival in Canada, directed by the great Tyrone Guthrie and using traditional Greek masks...

12/07/2019

The best version of Oedipus the King, in a translation by Don Taylor in 1986

Was assigned to watch and write on this. Compiled from a playlist for easier viewing. I did the best I could in a couple hours splicing the pieces together n...

12/07/2019

The entire 1968 film version of OEDIPUS THE KING, with Christopher Plummer as King Oedipus and Orson Welles as Tiresias the Blind Seer...

Version de la pièce de Sophocle tournée dans le théâtre grec de Dodone. Avec Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer, Orson Welles et Donald Sutherland.

12/07/2019

"Well, what better way to bring Oedipus’s tragic story to life than to publicly humiliate him on The Jerry Springer Show?"

Here's a quick question for you: what’s your first association when hear the word “Oedipus?” A) an ancient Greek drama, B) Freudian theory, C) an epic family tragedy, or D) Jerry Springer?  Most people will likely choose options A, B, or C.  Oedipus the King is, after all, a trag

12/06/2019

A really terrific book about the original Greek play, by Ken Glazer.

In Searching for Oedipus, attorney Ken Glazer recounts his decades-long quest to answer the Riddle of Oedipus: why Oedipus Rex, after 2,500 years, still wields such enormous power. Along the way he slices through the scholarly debate, laying bare the many ways this ancient masterpiece still speak...