The Stratford Festival is welcoming seven new participants to the Birmingham Conservatory for the 2025/2026 season. Learn ...

Common themes in today’s literature and theatre, such as courage, determination, jealousy, love and faithfulness, existed ...

Happy Families… A new opera by English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage is always a cause for excitement amongst the critical ...

The composer who put Anna Nicole Smith’s life onstage has a new piece: an adaptation of a cult movie about child abuse.

The Oscar-winning star is the uncanny centre of this season’s second take on the tragedy Oedipus, following Robert Icke’s brilliantly imagined modern-day political retelling last year.

The highly anticipated new season of the show is set to premiere exclusively on Netflix in the coming weeks. While the exact release date and time are yet to be announced, fans can expect an ...

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 ...

Fate is a funny thing. Just as it’s hardly Oedipus’s fault that he kills his dad and sleeps with his mum - sorry if you didn’t know that, but 2,500 years and your own Freudian subconscious ...

Either way, here we are with the second major London production of Sophocles’ Oedipus within months — this time it’s Rami Malek and Indira Varma spiralling into the vortex. Again it’s a ...

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