Two concurrent London productions of Oedipus might seem like overkill, but they actually worked to demonstrate the ...

Robert Icke's contemporary adaptation of "Oedipus" dominated the U.K. Critics' Circle theater awards 2025, taking home three ...

After “Oedipus,” Roundabout will pivot to lighter fare: The musical “The Rocky Horror Show” in the spring of 2026 at Studio 54, and the play “Fallen Angels,” that same spring ...

Icke’s production of Oedipus has been nominated for four 2025 Olivier Awards, including Best Director and Best Revival of a Play, cementing this production as one of the most celebrated ...

Oedipus decides to consult an oracle ... we’ll see the opening of another Sophocles play, Elektra, starring Brie Larson. There are certainly shades of contemporary politics to be found within ...

A curse has taken a hold of Thebes. Oedipus is the current King of Thebes, having solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and is determined to help the people. He married Jocasta, Queen of Thebes and has ...

When the original Oedipus found that he was married to his ... “We seem to be living in a play,” protests one respectable young lady. And so they are, with Stage Manager Compton-Burnett ...

Oedipus, blinded by his own hands, has been walking the land with his daughter, Antigone. He is searching for his place to die. As he is near Athens, he seeks out Theseus, King of Athens, and asks ...

Motlow State’s Theatre department will present “Oedipus” in April on the Moore County Campus. This version of the play was adapted from Sophocles’s original story by playwright Ellen McLaughlin and ...

At the play’s end, Oedipus – blind, exiled, lost in a desert created by his own ignorance – vanishes into a literal as well as a symbolic darkness.

Robert Icke's Oedipus was the big winner at this year's Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, scooping three gongs, with other ...