Mark Strong and Lesley Manville star in Robert Icke’s smart spin on the Greek tragedy, with its protagonist portrayed as a ...

Playwright-director Robert Icke drops the “rex” in Sophocles' “Oedipus Rex” because he sets the tragedy in the contemporary ...

Jocasta is finally alone with Oedipus, the man she knows at this point only as her husband. She tells him about being abused ...

Writer-director Robert Icke's modern retelling of 'Oedipus' opens on Broadway, with Mark Strong and Lesley Manville reprising ...

That's according to the critics anyway, who are lavishing praise on the West End import, which stars Mark Strong and Lesley ...

Icke dusts off the classics the way a restorer brightens an old master painting. His latest project stars Mark Strong and ...

Mark Strong leads a top-flight cast in Robert Icke’s adaptation of the Greek tragedy, imported from the West End.

Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are superb as a doomed political power couple in Robert Icke’s adaptation of the Sophocles ...

A modern political retelling of “Oedipus” hits Broadway, with Mark Strong and Lesley Manville starring in Robert Icke’s ...

The Sea. The June issue of Harper’s is now in the mailboxes (and will be on the website by Tuesday), and among its real gems is a newly discovered poem by Sophocles, assembled from papyrus fragments ...

Sean Graney’s been distilling and deconstructing classic texts for a decade and a half with the Hypocrites (and, more recently, with tonier outfits such as Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Court Theatre ...