Oedipus el Rey
May 7 - June 7, 2026
Written by Luis Alfaro
Directed by Huntington Artistic Director Loretta Greco
The Roberts Theatre in The Calderwood Pavilion, 527 Tremont St. Boston, MA 02116
Approximate Run Time: TBD
Content Advisories: TBD
Notable Dates:
Opening Night: Wednesday, May 13th at 7:00 pm
Audio Described: Saturday, June 6th at 2:00 pm →
Access tickets for the performances below will become available at a later date.
Open Caption: Tuesday, June 2nd at 7:00 pm
ASL: Friday, June 5th at 7:30 pm
Please contact access@huntingtontheatre.org with any questions.
Synopsis:
Luis Alfaro reimagines Sophocles’ classic in his acclaimed and electrifying Oedipus el Rey, set in the heart of Los Angeles. Oedipus dreams of rewriting his own story — but liberation comes at a price: can he truly escape the destiny laid out before him? What’s fate, and what’s just the system? A searing tale of love, family, and prophecy, Oedipus el Rey blends ancient myth with modern urgency and Chicano swagger with swaths of sly humor. Artistic Director Loretta Greco, who led the acclaimed premiere of Oedipus el Rey at The Magic Theatre, creates a production especially for Boston.
Cast & Crew:
Juan Arturo
Oedipus
Juan Arturo
Juan Arturo (he/him) Off Broadway: The Night of the Iguana (Signature Theatre); I Wanna F**k Like Romeo & Juliet (59E59); The Oregon Trail (WPT); Between the Bars (HERE Arts Center); cunnicularii (Good Apples Collective); The Rafa Play (The Flea Theater). Regional: Shane (The Guthrie Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (Hartford Stage); Clyde’s (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Support Group for Men (CATF).
Melisa Pereyra
Jocasta / Esfinge
Melisa Pereyra
Melisa Pereyra (she/her/ella) is a multi-hyphenate actress, director, and educator. The Huntington: Stand Up if You’re Here Tonight. Broadway: A Doll’s House. Regional: Court Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Lookingglass, American Players Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Rep, Milwaukee Rep, South Coast Rep, among others. She is the voice and likeness of Gabriela Castaneda in the Halo: Outpost Discovery experience.
Jaime José Hernández
El Coro
Jaime José Hernández
Jaime José Hernández The Huntington: John Proctor is The Villain. Off Broadway: The Other Americans (The Public Theater). Regional: The Hombres (Gloucester Stage/Teatro Chelsea); Sweat (Gamm Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Commonwealth Shakespeare); Native Gardens (Dorset Theatre Festival); Nosotros La Gente (B Street Theatre).
Javier David
El Sobrador / El Coro
Javier David
Javier David is a Chicano, bi-costal actor based in Brooklyn and California. The Huntington: Clyde’s, Witch. Off Broadway: Romeo and Juliet (Classical Theatre of Harlem); The Rediscovery Readings (Classic Stage Company). Regional: The Strangers (Chalk Circle Collective); The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare and Company); Do You Feel Anger? (Kitchen Theater Company); A Dollzes House (Signature Theatre); Cold Read Festival (Syracuse Stage); Almost, Maine (L.A. Theatre Center).
Gabe Martínez
Laius
Gabe Martínez
Gabe Martínez (he/him) Broadway: Moulin Rouge! The Musical. Off Broadway: Exorcistic (The Asylum NYC). Regional: In The Heights (Muhlenberg SMT); The Music Man (Baker Theatre); Hair (Empire Theatre); Sister Act (Palace Theatre).
Victor Almanzar
Tiresias
Victor Almanzar
Victor Almanzar (he/him) The Huntington: Man in the Ring. Broadway: Between Riverside and Crazy. Off Broadway: Between Riverside and Crazy, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, Tell Hector I Miss Him, Medea. Regional: Grand Concourse, Between Riverside and Crazy (Steppenwolf).
Luis Alfaro
Playwright
Luis Alfaro
Luis Alfaro is a Chicano playwright born and raised in downtown Los Angeles. He is recently the 2024 TCG World Theatre Artist and received the 2024 award in literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He is a MacArthur; United States Artists; Ford Foundation Art of Change; Joyce Foundation; Mellon Foundation Fellow, and the recipient of the PEN America/Laura Pels International Foundation Theater Award for a Master Dramatist.
Loretta Greco
Director
Loretta Greco
Loretta Greco is The Huntington’s Norma Jean Calderwood Artistic Director. Her extensive national directing credits include The Hills of California, The Light in the Piazza, The Triumph of Love, Prayer for the French Republic, and Taylor Mac’s world premiere of Joy and Pandemic at The Huntington, the premieres of runboyrun and A Park in Our House at New York Theatre Workshop, The Story, Lackawanna Blues, and Two Sisters and a Piano at The Public Theater, Sweat, The Realistic Joneses, Speed-the-Plow, and Blackbird at American Conservatory Theater, and productions for California Shakespeare, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Long Wharf, La Jolla Playhouse, and Williamstown Theatre Festival, among others.
Amelia Rose Estrada
Assistant Director
Amelia Rose Estrada
Amelia Rose Estrada (She/They) Huntington: Don’t Eat the Mangos. OffOff Broadway: Blood Orange (Et Alia Theater). Regional: CarmXn (Hogfish Maine); Sweeney Todd (Moonbox Productions). Choreography: Dancing en lo sucio (Dance Place); PAPAYA (The Rockwell); Love is Love is Love (The Kennedy Center).
Sonia Fernandez
Dramaturg
Sonia Fernandez
Sonia Fernandez (she/her) is a dramaturg, administrator, and producer specializing in new work. At Woolly Mammoth Theater Company, she serves on the Interim Artistic Collective – a four-member team created to help steer the organization during the artistic leadership search and transition.
Hana S. Kim
SScenic and Projections Designer
Hana S. Kim
Hana S. Kim (she/her) Broadway: The Outsiders, Redwood, Real Women Have Curves, The Old Man And The Pool, Summer 1976. Off Broadway / New York: Sumo, The Harder They Come, Eve’s Song (The Public Theater); A Knock On The Roof (NYTW); Everything Rises (BAM); Magdalene (Prototype Festival).
Reza Behjat
Lighting Designer
Reza Behjat
Reza Behjat is an Obie-winning theater artist and lighting designer based in New York. The Huntington: The Grove. Broadway: English. Off Broadway: BAM, Atlantic Theater, Signature Theatre, The New Group, Page 73, Public Theater, MCC Theater, Flea, Redbull Theater, Audible, Playwrights Horizons, NAATCO, Ars Nova.
Alex Jaeger
Costume Designer
Alex Jaeger
Alex Jaeger (he/him) The Huntington: The Light in the Piazza, Leopoldstadt, Prayer for the French Republic, Rock ‘N Roll. Off Broadway: Two Sisters and a Piano (Public Theatre), Wiesenthal (Acorn Theatre).
Jake Rodriguez
Sound Designer
Jake Rodriguez
Jake Rodriguez (he/him) is a sound designer and composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Huntington: Don’t Eat the Mangos. His recent theatrical credits include: How Shakespeare Saved My Life (Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Folger Theatre); Between Two Knees (Perelman Performing Arts Center, Yale Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Frankenstein Revived (Stratford Festival); Poor Yella Rednecks: Vietgone 2 (American Conservatory Theater).
Emily F. McMullen
Production Stage Manager
Emily F. McMullen
Emily F. McMullen (she/her) has stage managed over 30 shows over the past ten seasons at The Huntington, including We Had a World, Fun Home, Don’t Eat the Mangos, The Grove, Sojourners, Leopoldstadt, Toni Stone, John Proctor is the Villain, The Band’s Visit, The Lehman Trilogy, Clyde’s, The Art of Burning, Common Ground Revisited, Hurricane Diane, Sweat, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Indecent, Romeo and Juliet, Man in the Ring, The Niceties, Top Girls, Bad Dates, Tartuffe, and Merrily We Roll Along.
Ross Gray
Stage Manager
Ross Gray
Ross Gray The Huntington: Fun Home, Don’t Eat the Mangos, Nassim, Toni Stone, Stand Up if You’re Here Tonight, The Band’s Visit, Prayer for the French Republic, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. Regional: The Antiquities, Primary Trust, Pru Payne, Cost of Living, The Prom, English (SpeakEasy Stage); Two Strangers, The Odyssey (ART); A Christmas Carol, The Tempest (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company).
Jesse Hinson
Fight Director and Intimacy Coach
Jesse Hinson
Jesse Hinson (he/him) is a Boston-based violence designer, intimacy choreographer, actor, and educator. The Huntington: We Had a World, The Hills of California, The Light in the Piazza, The Triumph of Love, The Grove, Leopoldstadt, Fat Ham.
Adi Cabral
Voice and Dialect Coach
Adi Cabral
Adi Cabral (they/them) The Huntington: Don’t Eat the Mangos, Fat Ham. Regional: Queens Girl in the World (Front Porch Arts Collective/Hangar Theatre/Central Square Theater); keyp-ing (New Rep); The Importance of Being Earnest (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Mother of Exiles, Mother Road (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); The Mountaintop, Silent Sky, Raisin in the Sun, The Play That Goes Wrong, Emma: The Musical (Utah Shakespeare Festival).
Alldaffer & Donadio Casting
Casting Director
Alldaffer & Donadio Casting
Alldaffer & Donadio Casting Alaine Alldaffer, CSA, and Lisa Donadio have 15 Artios nominations and 4 wins for casting. Theaters: Playwrights Horizons, Classic Stage Company, Hartford Stage, TheaterWorks Hartford, Tent Theater, The Huntington, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Studio Theatre, Old Globe, Berkeley Rep.
Special Events:
Coolidge Corner Stage & Screen: O’ Brother Where Art Thou?
Coolidge Corner Theater
Monday, May 11 at 7pm
The Huntington and Coolidge Corner continue their “Stage & Screen” collaboration with an event on Monday, May 11 at Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA. After a 7pm showing of the Joel and Ethan Coen’s satirical comedy-drama musical film inspired by The Odyssey, starring George Clooney as a convict on the run, guests connected The Huntington’s production of Oedipus el Rey will host a post-screening discussion.
Tickets to the Stage & Screen film and post-screening discussion can be purchased below.
HCMI Night at Oedipus el Rey!
Join us for a Huntington Community Membership Initiative (HCMI) Night!
May 12th at 5:30 pm at The Calderwood Pavilion, 527 Tremont St.
All Community Members are invited to attend the pre-show reception. The evening includes complimentary food and drinks, an opportunity to learn more about Oedipus el Rey, and to meet other interested theatregoers.
Your $20 ticket to the May 12th performance is also your ticket to the pre-show reception. Use your exclusive HCMI code to unlock your $20 ticket.
If you need assistance retrieving your HCMI code, please reach out to Ticketing Services at 617-266-0800 or tickets@huntingtontheatre.org.
From Playwright Luis Alfaro
“It’s such a joy to see Oedipus el Rey making its debut in Boston, where I spent a considerable amount of my time as an up-and coming artist, first in poetry, performance art and finally, theater. I always wished that this play’s themes would lose their resonance as we continue to practice democracy in our culture. Instead, our reliance on the prison industrial complex has continued to grow and become a fabric of American life. The classic Greek play asks us one question of how we make society, ‘Is it destiny or is it fate?’ and we continue to wrestle with these ideas in our public spaces of inquiry, the theatre being one of vital spirituality and importance. I can’t wait to see what audiences think.”
From Artistic Director Loretta Greco
“Luis Alfaro is one of our national treasures. A poet, playwright, teacher, and activist, Luis creates award-winning work that has resonated across cultures and generations for decades. Audiences in San Francisco and cities throughout the country have been mesmerized as this young Oedipus traverses the world of today while poignantly wrestling with the ancient predicament of fate and hubris. I am so looking forward to revisiting Luis’s masterwork and sharing its urgency, humanity, Chicano swagger, hilarity, and heart with Boston audiences.”
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| Card to Culture | We are proud to offer $10 tickets to EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare card holders through Massachusetts’ Card to Culture program. For more information on this program visit https://www.mass.gov/ebt-card-to-culture | CTC10 |
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