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 ...

The Latine context also impacts the intricacies of the story. In “Oedipus el Rey,” Jocasta is given a much more prominent, ...

Oedipus Rex. The man with the complex. The dude who killed his father and married his mother. Everybody — thanks to Sigmund Freud — knows that story. But what is "Oedipus Rex," the grandaddy of all ...

Is a young man doomed to destiny or can he overcome his fate? Since the play “Oedipus El Rey” at the San Diego Rep is based on a classic Greek tragedy “Oedipus Rex,” we all know what the answer will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 2 hours, no intermission. At Studio 54, 254 W. 54th St. Old “Oedipus” wouldn’t seem an ideal candidate for modernization. It’s ...

Luis Alfaro isn't the first playwright to apply an ancient Greek template to a modern American story. Nor will he be the last to end up with an uneven play on his hands as a result. In Oedipus el Rey, ...

s production of playwright Luis Alfaro's brilliant "Oedipus el Rey" gives director Elizabeth Huffman and her cast a chance to demonstrate they can rise to the level of even this most challenging work.

's production of "Oedipus the King" expecting to see Sophocles' play set in a traditional Greek setting, you'll be surprised. Artistic director Elizabeth Huffman wants to take the company in a new ...