Sophocles is suddenly everywhere on the city’s stages. In concurrent shows, Rami Malek is playing Oedipus and Brie Larson is ...

Written in the 5th century BCE by one of the greatest ancient Greek playwrights, Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex is a masterpiece of theatrical construction, fraught with horrific, methodically realized ...

will leave the theatre convinced again that Aristotle could not have picked a better paradigm of elemental power and dramatic impact than Oedipus Rex. To take this production on its own terms ...

What oracle could have predicted that Freddie Mercury and Oedipus Rex might cross paths? Yet that’s exactly what’s happening now at London’s Old Vic. The ancient King of Thebes, famed for ...

Imagine stepping into the theatre and being instantly enveloped by a pulsing, musical heartbeat—an unmistakable sign that you ...

Above: Brie Larson, Greg Hicks, and Patrick Vaill in Elektra at Duke of York's Theatre, London. It’s no use denying there’s a thrill that comes from things that are new, especially when we’re talking ...

Sudden blackouts blind the audience, but set design is the most interesting thing about this unbalanced production of the ...

This overcooked, jarring production is the latest iteration of West End star casting and the craze has surely reached a nadir ...

Rami Malek and Indira Varma, © Manuel Harlan. The opening is dazzling. A chant of Oedipus. A man trapped in a smoky shaft of ...

The question of whether Rami Malek can actually act has always hung over this most idiosyncratic of performers, whose Oscar ...