IT'S PRETTY FUNNY that the Miracle Theatre's run of Oedipus el Rey overlapped with Mother's Day—I can't imagine a more awkward Sunday afternoon with mom than sitting in a dark room watching Jocasta unknowingly bang her own son. The Miracle's production ...

The Greek play which best embodies this in political form is Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes, in which a prince leads an army against his own city, ruled by his brother -- both sons of Oedipus. Half a century later, Thucydides recounts the terrors of the ...

A Chicago disaster is revisited. A young man misses his appointment with Goldman Sachs. Oedipus hits the streets of Los Angeles. Hats fly on the Goodman Theatre stage. And a bunch of wacky but super-smart Belgians ponder the meaning of the ...

(It's Jocasta's pins that blind Oedipus.) But brooches were born out of necessity, used to fasten togas and cloaks. It was the embellishment-favoring Byzantines who began to decorate them with brightly colored enamel. Brooches hit a snag in the ...

He also wrote about the Oedipus complex, where a son’s attraction to his own mother could lead him to want to kill his father. While Freud’s ideas have been challenged and even debunked over the years, his theories about human development ...

To wonder what's the motivation behind the action. My wondering was given a great deal of direction in high school when we read the ancient Greek play Oedipus Rex, and my teacher made an observation about the main character, Oedipus. She said ...

For me, the weekend included a trip to the Indianapolis Museum of Art to see the outdoor "Oedipus at Colonus" (see my review of "Oedipus Rex" here and a visit inside the IMA to see the newly reconfigured African art galleries (more on that soon).

Playwright Luis Alfaro, whose gripping “Oedipus el Rey” won awards at the Magic Theatre in 2010, returns to Greek tragedy with a new take on Euripedes’ “Medea.” Magic Theatre’s artistic director, Loretta Greco, stages this world premiere based ...

With their heavy-hitting brand of Rock, Zero 1 and Rocket Science record label mates Oedipus have hit as many bars, recreation facilities, and music venues throughout the Midwest as possible, winning fans over one at a time. If you’ve yet to hear the ...

I realized the Oedipus drama behind it and asked him if I could make a film about his father and his life as the poorest billionaire in the world. He got angry and we almost started to fight. Ten years later he called me up and said: Now my father is dead.