Stockard Channing also features in this London staging of Anne Carson's translation, directed by Daniel Fish, whose radical ...

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

There should be a support group for critically battered American stars who’ve made London debuts in duds. Sigourney Weaver’s ...

Elektra feels like a work in progress, an early read-through in which the rough edges are yet to be smoothed. Even Brie ...

Brie Larson’s Elektra is presented as a rebel, a provocateur, and the kind of obsessively angry soul who might well carry her microphone around town in order to besmirch her mother and berate ...

Read our review of *Elektra*, starring Brie Larson and Stockard Channing, now in performances at the Duke of York's Theatre ...

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We live in tragic times given over to cataclysmic events that require outsized emotions in return. That may be one reason to account for the uptick, therefore, in Greek drama, which includes not one ...

Led by Oscar-winning Hollywood starlet Brie Larson, it's a snarling, punk travesty of Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy ...

Brie Larson tackles the title role in Daniel Fish’s sterile take on the classical tragedy, translated by Anne Carson and also ...

After the expansiveness of Oedipus at the Old Vic, complete with dancing chorus, this version of Sophocles’s Elektra specialises in stripped back starkness – and comes with a singing chorus in true ...