402 results for ""Oedipus""
The West End import announces itself as a major Tony Awards player
Performances are now underway for Robert Icke's new adaptation of Oedipus on Broadway, starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville. The Olivier Award-winning Best Revival production opened on B…
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The great filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock described the art of suspense as providing the audience with foreknowledge of some terrible event that is about to unfold on unsuspecting characters. We …
Election night. The polls predict a landslide victory. Everything is about to change. Direct from a sold-out, record-breaking, Olivier Award-winning West End run, Sophocles' epic tragedy is …
His Oedipus, while glowing with his usual whip-smart language, doesn't have much fun in the toppling. Each domino falls ("I killed who?! You're my what?") with complete earnestness, and with…
Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, giving two of this year's great performances, lead a brilliant cast that turns this millennia-old story of pride and familial dysfunction into a timely polit…
It's where we learn her story in all its graphic detail, and though Manville is one hell of an actor"utterly at ease in one moment, ferocious in the next, destroyed in the one after that"eve…
Icke's work is really something: I can't recall ever previously being as riveted at a Greek tragedy. And my admiration for his show is increased by how Icke manages to stay remarkably true t…
The taut spin on "Oedipus" now on Broadway after a West End run last fall is a rare and magnificent feat of adaptation: Writer and director Robert Icke draws Sophocles' ancient play into the…
Mark Strong and Lesley Manville lead the modern take on Sophocles at Studio 54.
★★★★☆ Lesley Manville and Mark Strong have disturbingly good chemistry as theater's most famous twice-related couple
The post Oedipus: All About My Mother appea…
British writer-director Robert Icke has wrestled Sophocles into 2025, breathtakingly so, with his starkly intense revival from London starring Lesley Manville and Mark Strong that opened Thu…
Theatrely's Broadway review of Oedipus and Off-Broadway review of The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire at the Vineyard Theatre in New York City.
Writer-director Robert Icke's modern retelling of 'Oedipus' opens on Broadway, with Mark Strong and Lesley Manville reprising their acclaimed London performances.
The most contemporary, trenchant new play on Broadway is Robert Ickes' searing new adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus, which opened Thursday in a mesmerizing production that stands as one of t…
★★★★☆ Mark Strong and Lesley Manville deliver shattering performances in Robert Ickes' modern adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy
The post Oedipus: Fate Com…
Robert Icke's new adaptation of Oedipus is now open on Broadway, starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville. at Studio 54. In this new retelling, Icke transforms Sophocles' epic tragedy into a…
Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are superb as a doomed political power couple in Robert Icke's adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy.
You can now get a first look at production photos of the Robert Icke's new adaptation of Oedipus on Broadway, starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville. The Olivier Award-winning Best Revival…
As the show opens in New York, its stars took their places amid the desks of T Magazine to deliver a pivotal scene.
There's a solid chance that the last time you had to think deeply about Oedipus Rex, you were sitting in 11th grade English class and trying to understand the symbolism behind the titular ch…
For the week ending, the 35 currently running productions grossed $33,880,998.
The Olivier Award-winning Oedipus, an adaptation created and directed by Robert Icke, is now in performances now at Studio 54. Earlier this week, the show hosted a cocktail party at the Baza…
