Playwright-director Robert Icke drops the “rex” in Sophocles' “Oedipus Rex” because he sets the tragedy in the contemporary ...

As the show opens in New York, its stars took their places amid the desks of T Magazine to deliver a pivotal scene.

"As the doomed mother-son couple, Lesley Manville and Mark Strong deliver two of the most captivating performances on New ...

Robert Icke’s new adaptation of Oedipus is now open on Broadway, starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville. at Studio 54. See what the critics had to say about the New York transfer of this Olivier ...

When she studied acting in London in the 1950s, she was told she was unlikely to find work. She ended up starting one of the ...

Odysseus: In Greek mythology, Odysseus is a character in The Iliad and the main protagonist of The Odyssey. Petros: Rock, ...

Mr Donald Trump and his Generals are buckling their armour to wipe out terrorists who kill Christians in Nigeria. “I am hereby instructing our Department of War to ...

Take Oedipus. What irritates Haynes most about the Theban king is not that he killed his father, married his own mum and sired children with her. It’s that we tend to call him Oedipus Rex, not Oedipus ...

Between 1606 and 1607, William Shakespeare wrote Macbeth. Two hundred and twenty years later, in 1827, Joseph Niépce took a ...

A chance discovery led to the restoration of footage featuring the likes of James Mason and Trevor Howard on their trip to ...

As a sci-fi action-adventure romp, “Badlands” works fine. But the film is hampered by an identity crisis, unwilling to commit ...

A strange hush falls over the theatre. The restless shuffling stills, the screen sinks into shadow, and the background score ...