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In our final major theatre trip of 2025, my stagey fianc…
Broadway " Studio 54: 254 West 54 Street. Nov. 13-Feb. 8, 2025. Drama. Author: Robert Icke adapting Sophocles. Director: Robert Icke. Critic: David Sheward (Nov. 2025). **** The countdown cl…
Not for the first time, wunderkind English director Robert Icke has re-ignited (and re-engineered) a classic"Sophocles' 5th century BC Greek tragedy, ...
The Broadway veteran stars as a Marie Antoinette wannabe in a musical about excess, and Anne Washburn goes post-apocalyptic with "The Burning ...
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 adap…
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…
The British directing star Robert Icke specializes in contemporary adaptations of classics. He writes and directs them, proudly insisting that they only deserve attention if they hold their …
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 f…
Mark Strong and Lesley Manville in OEDIPUS. Photo by Julieta Cervantes. The Broadway Theatre Review: Oedipus on Broadway By Ross The moment that ...
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 Theat…
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 w…
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 …
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 contemp…
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 …
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 Str…
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.
With 'Oedipus,' Robert Icke's Radical Vision Comes to Broadway. Icke dusts off the classics the way a restorer brightens an old master painting. His ...
This is most evident in his one previous Broadway production, his adaptation in 2017 of "1984." Its startling sensory assault and graphic scenes of ...
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 h…
"Oedipus" officially opened on Broadway Thursday night. This adaptation is a modern day spin on the Greek tragedy.
"Oedipus" officially opened on Broadway Thursday night. This adaptation is a modern day spin on the Greek tragedy. For video licensing inquiries, ...
Broadway favorite leading ladies Bernadette Peters, Donna Murphy, and the revival's Olivier-winning star Lesley Manville were just a few of the ...
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 T…
Bernadette Peters, Olivier-winning star Lesley Manville, Donna Murphy, and more celebrated on the red carpet November 13.