The city of Thebes, parched by prolonged drought and plague. Groans echo endlessly, and countless branches of petition point ...

In the five years since his “Oedipus El Rey” was first staged, says Luis Alfaro, one event still stands out as his “favorite moment in the life of the play.” But it didn’t come during a performance, ...

As playwright Luis Alfaro will tell you, writing a love scene for a guy and his mother is hard work. “You have to make it sexy, but you can’t make it too sexy because it would be too freaky for the ...

COURTESY LEEWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE @RTF R(0)G(0)B(0)=[C] courtesy leeward community college Joshua Weldon is the modern-day Oedipus, backed by a contemporary Chorus, in "Oedipus the King." Greeks of ...

Other winners include Francesca Amewudah-Rivers for Romeo & Juliet, Danny Sapani as King Lear and Giant playwright Mark Rosenblatt A modern-day version of Oedipus, which turned Sophocles’ tragic ...

It’s hard to imagine that Sophocles’ tragedy “Oedipus Rex” was any more thrilling to ancient Greek audiences than this modern Mexican-American remake by playwright Luis Alfaro presented by Magic ...

Ancient Greek theater will meet the modern world as “Oedipus the King” opens tonight in the Manhattan Beach Community Church Community Hall. In an effort to make the play uniquely American, director ...

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 ...

It’s a ridiculous —42 C outside, but when I chat with Kevin Orr, director and founder of Repercussion Theatre, he has just returned from a 20-minute walk, which he describes as “sub-arctic, but sunny ...