Oedipus, the Theban ruler, confronts a plague that’s killing the crops and causing widespread sterility. Death and destruction are closing in.

Oedipus first premiered in Amsterdam in 2018, performed in Dutch, then played Edinburgh International Festival a year later. This belated West End visit retains the original’s stark European ...

Can’t catch the live revival of this retelling of “Oedipus at Colonus”? Stream a version with Freeman and Robert Earl Jones, ...

Oedipus becomes Eddy, an angry young working-class man looking to better himself while fleeing a horrible fate predicted by a carnival fortune teller that has become a running gag in his family.

Oedipus killed his father and made love to his mother. Freud applied this story to explain what he saw as basic urges in every boy’s unconscious. Hence the Oedipus complex.

For Oedipus’ subjects there will be no resolution to their crisis, the plague, without unity. The city must demonstrate to itself that the verdict is unanimous, that the verdict is believed by all.

Like the character of Oedipus from Greek tragedy, people are frustrated and fearful. Theater of War, Williams says, is “a great way to have an important conversation and get people talking.” ...

The Old Vic ‘s Oedipus will inevitably draw comparisons with Robert Icke’s version at Wyndham’s Theatre starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville that ended its run in January. While that was ...

Where Three Roads Meet, the new novel from British psychologist and fiction writer Sally Vickers, is set in the spring of 1923, and features an invented encounter between the ailing Sigmund Freud ...

Oedipus Complex 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 ...