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

That's according to the critics anyway, who are lavishing praise on the West End import, which stars Mark Strong and Lesley ...

British writer-director Robert Icke has wrestled Sophocles into 2025, breathtakingly so, with his starkly intense revival ...

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 ...

So here we are at the holiest of the theater's holies: Greek tragedy. Angels seldom tread in this territory; the Greeks raise dramaturgical challenges -- rigid dialogue and peculiar chorus, for ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Company Theatre continues its 2023-24 season with the Sophocles' classic ...

Some of Hollywood's most respected actors performed "Oedipus Rex" for a global audience of thousands Thursday night -- on Zoom. Frances McDormand, John Turturro, Oscar Isaac and others read from the ...

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

The National Museum of Scotland proved itself to be a fine venue for this performance in many ways. Its vast expanse of space allowed for much milling around the orchestra, which was in the centre, ...

With "Oedipus El Rey," Luis Alfaro transplants Sophocles' Greek tragedy to a section of modern-day L.A. roiled by gang warfare. It’s unlikely you’ll be shocked that the title character in Luis ...