Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s “The Gospel at Colonus,” this year’s livelier-than-usual outdoor theater production at the Getty Villa, combines disparate ritual traditions. Ancient Greek tragedy is ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by In an open-air revival on Little Island in Manhattan, Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s musically sumptuous play follows Oedipus at the end of his life. By ...

Oedipus lays out his reasoning for letting him stay in Colonus to the Chorus. Oedipus did not murder his father on purpose, it was self defense. Oedipus, blinded by his own hands, has been walking the ...

In the program for Gospel at Colonus, the musical co-creator Lee Breuer notes that “Zora Neale Hurston made the connection between Greek tragedy and the sanctified church many years ago, and The ...

The minds behind the musical's run at LA's Ebony Repertory Theater explain the musical's continued relevance and the success of the unlikely pairing at its core In the history of theater, there have ...

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Court Theatre has announced the extension of the critically acclaimed hit The Gospel at Colonus due to overwhelming demand. Conceived and adapted by Lee Beuer with music composed by Bob Telson, this ...

Antigone (Greta Oglesby) and Oedipus (Rev. Earl Miller) in “The Gospel at Colonus” at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park (all images by Joan Marcus/courtesy The Public Theater) Church parishioners ...

Conceived in the wake of several successful, spiritually-minded Broadway shows — from Godspell to Your Arms Too Short to Box with God — Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s 1984 Obie Award-winning The Gospel ...

Theseus arrives on scene and talks with Oedipus. Oedipus reveals that he is set to die and lead Theseus and his daughters to his tomb. Oedipus, blinded by his own hands, has been walking the land with ...