Today, Roundabout Theatre Company announced their plans for the 2025-2026 Broadway and Off-Broadway season. While the Todd Haimes undergoes a renovation, this fall Robert Icke's Oedipus will…
"Anywhere" is an hour-long puppet piece that features a marionette who is made of ice, slowly melts, then turns to mist, and finally disappears completely. It mystified me. There are several…
Excerpts from an hour-long puppet piece about a marionette that melts, at HERE Arts Center through March 2, 2025. Click https://newyorktheater.me/2025/02/21/anywhere-at-here-oedipus-as-a-mel…
Old Vic; Duke of York's, London In a busy week for Sophocles and star casting, Rami Malek is the weak link in a radical new Oedipus with dancing chorus, while Brie Larson's snarling Elektra …
Is it a dance piece with added text, or a stripped down play with excess choreography?
The opening scene of the Old Vic's Oedipus is dominated by a giant backdrop of a skull-like face, eyes …
The Old Vic, LondonRami Malek's outsider vibes enliven seamy, superb new staging of Sophocles' family tragedy
Dance in Greek tragedy " why not? The ancient Athenians did it, their choruses a…
Sonia Friedman Productions (SFP) today announces an additional performance specifically for under 30s with all tickets at £10 for the West End run of the critically acclaimed Oedipus
A short catch-up on one of the season's greats (was away..) Mark Strong is made to play great tragedy: a long powerful body,  controlled bleak intelligent  features.A figure from any a…
The myth of Oedipus is so central to our psychic world that I was really surprised how many people in the audience for this revival were shocked by the revelation of the protagonist's incest…
Wyndham's; Donmar Warehouse; Trafalgar, LondonMark Strong and Lesley Manville transfix as Robert Icke wires Sophocles into the present; Adrien Brody excels in a sharp prison drama; and how n…
Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are the powerhouse heart of Robert Icke's adaptation
How many times does a politician survive wave after wave of attack from rivals, surf the waves of fickle …
(Arifa Akbar's article appeared in the Guardian, 10/16; From left: Jordan Scowen (Eteocles), Mark Strong (Oedipus), and Lesley Manville (Jocasta) in Oedipus. Photograph: Manuel Harlan. West …
Wyndham's theatre, LondonOpening in a campaign room on election night, Robert Icke's modern retelling is riveting from beginning to end, the formidable leads supported by a stellar ensemble …
National Museum of Scotland, EdinburghThere was wonderfully precise singing and magnificently dramatic orchestral work, but the promenading community chorus, featuring local NHS workers, may…
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: The Public Theater's Oedipus El Rey, written by Luis Alfaro and directed by Chay Yew, is being presented in collaboration with The Sol Project, running through …
Back in college, when I mentioned I was writing a paper on Antigone as presented in both the Sophoclean original and in Jean Anouilh's 1944 French Resistance"era update, a dorm friend rolled…