By Paulanne Simmons November 20, 2025: The story of Oedipus has terrified and troubled people for generations. But it has never been more troubling and terrifying than in Robert Icke’s adaptation. There’s …

Robert Icke’s adaptation of Sophocles ventures into the arena of modern-day electoral politics. Mark Strong as Oedipus and Samuel Brewer as Teiresias in Oedipus. Courtesy DKC/O&M. Photo: Julieta Cervante…

This week, The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal is here to get you out of that pre-holiday slump. From divas to dogs gracing your screen, get your fill of The Great White Way with a breakdown of the packed epi…

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By David Sheward November 19, 2025: The countdown clock in Hildegard Bechtler’s sterile set for Robert Icke’s explosively dramatic adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedipus was ticking down to the final minutes a…

The Broadway Theatre Review: Oedipus on Broadway By Ross The moment that Mark Strong’s handsome frame fills that massive opening screen, a sensation passes through Broadway’s Studio 54 Theatre. It’s impos…

By Carol Rocamora… Icke’s modern-day version of Oedipus is even more horrific than the original, written millennia ago How can we bear to sit through another production of Oedipus, since we all know its hor…

Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed. Star-Crossed and West End-Bound Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe will make their West End debuts next spring in Romeo & Juliet. Performances begin March 16…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/16/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative…

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 human thriller c…

Oedipus director Robert Icke will helm the new revival at the Harold Pinter Theatre.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is November 18, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: NEW - BWW For You, Personalized Story Picks, Click …

Icke, Strong, and Manville update Sophocles for a modern political tragedy. In 1959, Elmer Rice wrote Cue for Passion, a Broadway play that adapted Shakespeare’s Hamlet into contemporary terms, emphasizing…

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 human thriller c…

The stars came out on November 13 to take in the triumphant opening of Oedipus on Broadway at Studio 54. Director Robert Icke's modern retelling of Sophocles' Greek tragedy stars Mark Strong as Oedipus and Les…

“The American Revolution” launched last night (You can binge all six episodes online now or wait for the nightly broadcast.)Revolution was also on stage last week in various ways. Series creator Ken Burns …

Mark Strong, Lesley Manville and celebrate bringing Robert Icke's OEDIPUS to Broadway on opening night. Get tickets to OEDIPUS: https://www.broadway.com/shows/oedipus/

Icke dusts off the classics the way a restorer brightens an old master painting. His latest project stars Mark Strong and Lesley Manville.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is November 17, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed over the weekend: NEW - BWW For You, Personalized Story Picks, Click Here…

It’s early on Election Day, and Oedipus, populist candidate confident that he’ll be swept into office, makes two off-the-cuff public promises that will blow up in his face: He will release his birth certifi…

Robert Icke's modern take on Sophocles' Oedipus is officially open on Broadway at Studio 54. Reimagined as a tense political thriller that takes place on election night, Olivier winner and Tony nominee Mark St…

Bernadette Peters, Olivier-winning star Lesley Manville, Donna Murphy, and more celebrated on the red carpet November 13.

The West End import announces itself as a major Tony Awards player

Stars announced for anniversary ‘Laramie Project,’ ‘Hazbin Hotel’ on Broadway to stream, Matt reviews ‘Oedipus’ Since 2016, “Today on Broadway” has been the first and only daily podcast recappin…

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 Broadway at Studio …

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is November 14, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: NEW - BWW For You, Personalized Story Picks, Click …

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 transformed into a…

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 without broader …

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 political thriller that…

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—even she can’t …

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 to so much of the…

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 present while…

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 appeared first on New York Stage Review.

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 Thursday night at Studi…

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.

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 the memorable nig…

★★★★☆ Mark Strong and Lesley Manville deliver shattering performances in Robert Ickes’ modern adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy The post Oedipus: Fate Comes for Us All appeared first on New Yo…

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 human thriller …

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 production opens …

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

While Richard III has been done 21 times on Broadway, Richard II has been done only seven, most recently in 1957. (Source: ibdb.com) It is certainly less interesting. Richard III is a grand villain, smart, ful…

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 character’s ankles…

'Oedipus,' starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, brought in $485,000 across its first four preview performances at Studio 54, with 100 percent capacity.

For the week ending, the 35 currently running productions grossed $33,880,998.

Every Broadway season features exciting Broadway debuts - exciting for the actors who are reaching a pinnacle in their careers, and exciting for audiences who are getting to see history in the making! Today's p…

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 Bazaar Bar at the Ritz-C…

The Olivier Award-winning Oedipus – an adaptation created and directed by Robert Icke. Oedipus is in performances now at Studio 54 for a strictly limited 14-week engagement. As the production kicks off previe…

Wishing Olivier Award-winning Oedipus an incredible run as it begins performances across the pond 🇺🇸 Here's Lesley Manville, who won for Best Actress, praising Robert Icke's emotionally intelligent adapt…

An edge-of-your-seat modern adaptation of the Greek tragedy of Oedipus, starring Olivier winner Mark Strong and two-time Olivier winner Lesley Manville, begins performances at Studio 54 on October 30 with op…

Robert Icke directs and adapts the Sophocles tragedy, coming to the Main Stem after a West End bow.

The reimagined version of Sophocles' tragedy won an Olivier Award in London's West End.

A digital rush policy is set to launch for the Broadway production of the Olivier Award-winning Oedipus – an adaptation created and directed by Robert Icke. Oedipus begins performances on Broadway on Thursday…

Watch a first look at the company of Into The Woods in London on their first day of rehearsals. The production, helmed by director Jordan Fein with set and costume designer Tom Scutt, will begin previews on Tue…

Patrick Pacheco reunites with our expert panel—Ruthie Fierberg ("Broadway News"), Adam Feldman ("Time Out New York"), and Jan Simpson (Broadway Radio's "All the Drama")—for Part Two of our Fall Preview, tur…

The Dublin Theatre Festival Review: The Boy at Abbey Theatre By Ross There’s something ever so Greek and tragic in the air lately, as I wrote just yesterday, and I’m not (this time) talking American politic…

The Stratford Theatre Review: Spontaneous Theatre’s Goblin:Oedipus By Ross It was exactly as expected, the night I arrived at Stratford Festival’s Studio Theatre for the opening night of Goblin:Oedipus, Spo…

EXCLUSIVE: New York State extended a prized theater tax credit for another six weeks, benefiting the incoming Broadway shows Rob Lake Magic with Special Guests The Muppets, Oedipus and the new musical Two Stran…

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Abbey, DublinTwo new plays reimagine Sophocles and Euripides with lavish scale, mordant humour and fresh interrogation of power and prophecy ‘We are the new gods,” Oedipus, King of Thebes, declares in a mom…

Playwright Savannah Reich pushes the boundaries of theatrical experience with her mashup of Oedipus and Sleepless in Seattle, two stories about fate, featuring new actors every night who have never seen the scr…

Roundabout Theatre Company has revealed the dates for the remainder of productions during its 2025-2026 season both on and off Broadway. Additional cast and creative team information for these upcoming producti…

It’s the jam-packed 2025 fall preview special of The Broadway Show, the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and b…

The choreographer has paired the tragedies of Oedipus Rex and Antigone in a monumental double bill, Jocasta’s Line, which refuses to spoon-feed audiences When Stravinsky composed Oedipus Rex in 1927, Jean Coc…

Oedipus is heading to Broadway! The Olivier Award-winning Oedipus – an adaptation created and directed by Robert Icke, begins performances on Broadway on Thursday, October 30, 2025, with an opening night set …

Reviews are in for ‘Art’ on Broadway, Times Square casino officially not happening, full cast for ‘Oedipus’ announced Since 2016, “Today on Broadway” has been the first and only daily podcast recapp…

The production will begin performances at Studio 54 on October 30 and officially open on November 13.

The Olivier Award-winning Oedipus, created and directed by Robert Icke after Sophocles, has found its Broadway cast. The production will begin performances at Studio 54 on October 30 and officiallly open on No…

Robert Icke directs and adapts the Sophocles tragedy, coming to the Main Stem after a West End bow.

The complete cast has been revealed for the Broadway production of the Olivier Award-winning Oedipus – an adaptation created and directed by Robert Icke. Oedipus begins performances on Broadway on Thursday, O…

Once again I seem to be late to the party. Other bloggers, critics and influencers have been putting out lists of the things they most want to see in this new theater season since mid-August. And I can understa…

In this musical comedy by Los Angeles’ beloved Troubadour Theater Company, Sophocles’ Oedipus gets all shook up with the music of the King of Rock and Roll! Plot twists and pelvic thrusts are plentiful, and…

It's Back to School time! So why not start with a little test? This one's all about plays on Broadway. Good luck! Broadway Pop Quiz: The Play's the Thing!       1. TRUE or FALSE: The current Broadway …

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By David Sheward July 21, 2025: Musical styles are mixed to maximum emotional effect in unusual productions in one new outdoor venue in Manhattan and at the 50th anniversary season of a long-established festi…

Can’t catch the live revival of this retelling of “Oedipus at Colonus”? Stream a version with Freeman and Robert Earl Jones, or four more stage-related shows.