Wednesday, November 12, 2025
As the show opens in New York, its stars took their places amid the desks of T Magazine to deliver a pivotal scene.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:32PMTuesday, November 11, 2025
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…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:18AMWednesday, November 5, 2025
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 …
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'Oedipus,' starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, brought in $485,000 across its first four preview performances at Studio 54, with 100 percent capacity.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:53PMMonday, November 3, 2025
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 t…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:36AMFriday, October 31, 2025
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 Baza…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48AMThursday, October 30, 2025
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 product…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54PMWishing 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 emotional…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:56AMAn 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 o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:48AMRobert Icke directs and adapts the Sophocles tragedy, coming to the Main Stem after a West End bow.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12AMWednesday, October 29, 2025
The reimagined version of Sophocles' tragedy won an Olivier Award in London's West End.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:54PMA 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 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMTuesday, October 28, 2025
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 b…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:48AMFriday, October 24, 2025
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 P…
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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) talk…
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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…
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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 n…
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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 Thebe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMTuesday, September 30, 2025
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 hav…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:50PMRoundabout 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 the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:02PMThursday, September 25, 2025
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, exclus…
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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 R…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMThursday, September 18, 2025
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 a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMReviews 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 …
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The production will begin performances at Studio 54 on October 30 and officially open on November 13.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 06:19PMThe 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 of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:06PMRobert Icke directs and adapts the Sophocles tragedy, coming to the Main Stem after a West End bow.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PMThe 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 Bro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PMSaturday, September 13, 2025
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…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:12PMFriday, August 29, 2025
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 thrust…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:12PMIt's Back to School time! So why not start with a little test? This one's all about plays on Broadway. Good luck!
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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 lo…
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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.
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In an open-air revival on Little Island in Manhattan, Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s musically sumptuous play follows Oedipus at the end of his life.
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Sure, five more Broadway shows closed over the weekend, but not everything has come and gone (30 still running), and there are several exciting new announcements: Taraji P. Henson will make …
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