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 ...

We live in tragic times given over to cataclysmic events that require outsized emotions in return. That may be one reason to ...

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

After two and a half millennia, Sophocles can still pull in a crowd. This week saw the opening of Oedipus at the Old Vic, in ...

Brie Larson made her West End debut last month when ... sister,” Larson previously told The Hollywood Reporter. “My mom says her favourite sound is hearing me and my sister laughing while ...

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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Brie Larson is the latest American star to make ... of stately bearing and stirring defensiveness and lending the pivotal mother-daughter battle an urgency, danger and truthfulness.

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 ...