Luis Alfaro takes “Oedipus Rex” and moves it up a few millennia to the streets of present-day Los Angeles. He calls his new adaptation “Oedipus el Rey,” but a more apt title would be “Oedipus Sex.” ...

Jocasta is finally alone with Oedipus, the man she knows at this point only as her husband. She tells him about being abused and impregnated as a 13-year-old by Laius, a much older man who will ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The city of Thebes is putrefying. Cows give birth to dead calves, fruit withers, babies perish. Why? Because King ...

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, Who?,” the title of a play at the Bailiwick Arts Center, might just seem like a catchy name for this adaptation of the play by Sophocles, but it is much more meaningful than that. Director ...

Luis Alfaro takes “Oedipus Rex” and moves it up a few millennia to the streets of present-day Los Angeles. He calls his new adaptation “Oedipus el Rey,” but a more apt title would be “Oedipus Sex.” ...