In the corner of the wide white anonymous modern room that comprises the set of Robert Icke’s free adaptation of Oedipus Rex, ...

Mark Strong and Lesley Manville give immaculate performances as Oedipus and Jocasta, bolstered by David Icke's monumental ...

will leave the theatre convinced again that Aristotle could not have picked a better paradigm of elemental power and dramatic impact than Oedipus Rex. To take this production on its own terms ...

Especially in a time of war, we should be bad readers: not because we must abjure curiosity or knowledge but because we in ...

Those who witnessed the 1881 production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex can now see what eventually happened to the King in the play's sequel, Oedipus Coloneus, the last of the dramatist's seven extant ...

Rob Icke’s reimagining of Sophocles’ 2,500-year-old tragedy boasts a starry cast, but does it have the critics tearing their ...

From "Oedipus Rex" to "Phantom Thread," some of the greatest dramatic works ever put to paper or celluloid have revolved around family. The ties that bind. And occasionally strangle. Sometimes you ...

"I was fortunate enough to go into a coma." Giorgio Montanini gets straight to the point, without beating around the bush, ...

McNeal,” by Pulitzer-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar and starring Robert Downey Jr., is a high-gloss mess that strands the ...

"I was fortunate to fall into a coma." Giorgio Montanini gets straight to the point, without beating around the bush, when ...

In the corner of the wide white anonymous modern room that comprises the set of Robert Icke’s free adaptation of Oedipus Rex, a digital clock ticks down the seconds to zero. It’s a trick Icke ...