The Gospel at Colonus

An African-American musical version of Sophocles's tragedy, Oedipus at Colonus. In 1985 PBS televised the original Brooklyn Academy of Music production, as presented by the American Music Theater Festival at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia, as part of the Great Performances series.

• Kirk BrowningDirector
• Lee BreuerDirector

• Clarence FountainOedipus
• Isabell O'ConnorAntigone
• Carl LumblyTheseus
• Jevetta SteeleIsmene
• Morgan FreemanMessenger
• The Soul StirrersThemselves