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.

Robert Icke's adaptation of Oedipus starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville broke the record for highest weekly gross at Broadway’s Studio 54, taking in $1,212,949 for its final week of performances.

President Trump and a detail of "Oedipus and the Sphinx" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, part of the collection at the Louvre in Paris. (Trump photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images; "Oedipus" image by ...

In an unusual theatrical coincidence, two major productions of Oedipus were announced on the same day last year: Robert Icke’s sleek, modern-dress adaptation starring Mark Strong, which recently ...

Rami Malek’s outsider vibes enliven seamy, superb new staging of Sophocles’ family tragedy Dance in Greek tragedy – why not? The ancient Athenians did it, their choruses a weave of sound and movement, ...

You can perform impossible feats, be a wise and respected leader, even solve the riddle of the Sphinx – but if you end up shagging your mum, that’s the only thing people will remember. This delirious ...

Bold and intellectually stimulating, but also overly literal and dramatically languid, Frank Galati's "Oedipus Complex" adapts the famed Sophoclean tragedy by inserting Dr. Freud throughout the story, ...