The Oedipus Plays Two major D.C. theaters, Arena Stage and the Shakespeare Theater, have opened their schedules with new productions that combine several classic tragedies by the playwright and ...

Lee Breuer and Bob Telson's 'The Gospel at Colonus,' a reworking of Sophocles' 'Oedipus at Colonus' with gospel music, opens at the Getty Villa's Outdoor Theater in a co-production with Chicago's ...

Oedipus' starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville will begin performances at Broadway's Studio 54 on October 30 with an ...

Matthew Jaeger, who plays Oedipus Advisor and shadows the protagonist, is afforded proper gravity. His close interaction with Harvard’s Oedipus helps embody the tragic journey.

Typical is The Play Room Club, sponsored by Maxwell Anderson, Brock Pemberton et al. Planning to present five plays throughout the season, admitting only members and their guests, the club last ...

Oedipus at Wyndham’s Theatre review: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are spellbinding in this wrenchingly tense Greek tragedy - 4/5 Strong is superb and surely there’s no better actress ...

Glorious church music carries Court’s ‘Gospel at Colonus’ While the ‘Oedipus’ adaptation sometimes struggles to clarify what is sermon and what is Sophocles, the songs stir up plenty of joy.

Entertainment Theater ... Actors Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, right, perform in the play “Oedipus”, in London in Oct. 2024. Credit: AP/Manuel Harlan. By The Associated PressOctober 18, 2024.

Natural Affection, by William Inge, has the roiling, quivering hysteria of a child's uncontrollable tantrum. Cruel words and raw emotions splinter against the walls of a three-room Chicago ...

Oedipus play Mark Strong Lesley Manville at Wyndham's Theatre. Nick Curtis @nickcurtis. 16 October 2024. ... As in his previous free adaptations of plays by the Greeks and Chekhov, ...

London theatre goers will recall Icke’s scintillating, Olivier Award- winning Oresteia, for the Almeida in 2015: another Greek tragedy in which, hey, they fuck you up, your mum and dad. In truth, ...