Today, Roundabout Theatre Company announced their plans for the 2025-2026 Broadway and Off-Broadway season. While the Todd Haimes undergoes a renovation, this fall Robert Icke's Oedipus will…
"Anywhere" is an hour-long puppet piece that features a marionette who is made of ice, slowly melts, then turns to mist, and finally disappears completely. It mystified me. There are several…
Excerpts from an hour-long puppet piece about a marionette that melts, at HERE Arts Center through March 2, 2025. Click https://newyorktheater.me/2025/02/21/anywhere-at-here-oedipus-as-a-mel…
Old Vic; Duke of York's, London In a busy week for Sophocles and star casting, Rami Malek is the weak link in a radical new Oedipus with dancing chorus, while Brie Larson's snarling Elektra …
Is it a dance piece with added text, or a stripped down play with excess choreography? The opening scene of the Old Vic's Oedipus is dominated by a giant backdrop of a skull-like face, eyes …
Matthew Warchus and Hofesh Shechter are co-directing the new take on the Sophocles tragedy for The Old Vic.
The Old Vic, LondonRami Malek's outsider vibes enliven seamy, superb new staging of Sophocles' family tragedy Dance in Greek tragedy " why not? The ancient Athenians did it, their choruses a…
Matthew Warchus and Hofesh Shechter are co-directing the new take on the Sophocles tragedy for The Old Vic.
Matthew Warchus and Hofesh Shechter are co-directing the new take on the Sophocles tragedy for The Old Vic.
Sonia Friedman Productions (SFP) today announces an additional performance specifically for under 30s with all tickets at £10 for the West End run of the critically acclaimed Oedipus
A short catch-up on one of the season's greats (was away..) Mark Strong is made to play great tragedy: a long powerful body,  controlled bleak intelligent  features.A figure from any a…
The myth of Oedipus is so central to our psychic world that I was really surprised how many people in the audience for this revival were shocked by the revelation of the protagonist's incest…
Wyndham's; Donmar Warehouse; Trafalgar, LondonMark Strong and Lesley Manville transfix as Robert Icke wires Sophocles into the present; Adrien Brody excels in a sharp prison drama; and how n…
Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are the powerhouse heart of Robert Icke's adaptation How many times does a politician survive wave after wave of attack from rivals, surf the waves of fickle …
Robert Icke's adaptation at Wyndham's Theatre brilliantly remakes the disturbing tragedy for our time
(Arifa Akbar's article appeared in the Guardian, 10/16; From left: Jordan Scowen (Eteocles), Mark Strong (Oedipus), and Lesley Manville (Jocasta) in Oedipus. Photograph: Manuel Harlan. West …
Writer and director Robert Icke reinvents the well-known story as a taut political thriller
Wyndham's theatre, LondonOpening in a campaign room on election night, Robert Icke's modern retelling is riveting from beginning to end, the formidable leads supported by a stellar ensemble …
See first look photos of the West End run of Oedipus, a new adaptation created by Robert Icke after Sophocles.
National Museum of Scotland, EdinburghThere was wonderfully precise singing and magnificently dramatic orchestral work, but the promenading community chorus, featuring local NHS workers, may…
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: The Public Theater's Oedipus El Rey, written by Luis Alfaro and directed by Chay Yew, is being presented in collaboration with The Sol Project, running through …
Matthew Warchus and Hofesh Shechter will co-direct the new take on the Sophocles tragedy in 2025.
Back in college, when I mentioned I was writing a paper on Antigone as presented in both the Sophoclean original and in Jean Anouilh's 1944 French Resistance"era update, a dorm friend rolled…