One of the most basic questions in the world is “Who are you?” It's at the heart of the ancient tragedy of Oedipus, and it ...

Mark Strong and Lesley Manville give immaculate performances as Oedipus and Jocasta, bolstered by David Icke's monumental ...

Starring the internationally renowned, multi award-winning Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, Sophocles’ epic tragedy is ...

Especially in a time of war, we should be bad readers: not because we must abjure curiosity or knowledge but because we in ...

Rob Icke’s reimagining of Sophocles’ 2,500-year-old tragedy boasts a starry cast, but does it have the critics tearing their ...

"I was fortunate enough to go into a coma." Giorgio Montanini gets straight to the point, without beating around the bush, ...

Most modern people get no further than Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and his Antigone, but it was a much larger collection of literature. Sadly, the great majority of these dramas are lost in the ...

In the course of the two-hour playing time, Icke ratchets up enough tension to cause gasps in certain parts of the audience who have either forgotten or perhaps never knew that when Freud talked about ...

"I was fortunate to fall into a coma." Giorgio Montanini gets straight to the point, without beating around the bush, when ...

This remarkable exhibition deals with an aspect of Roman culture that is relatively unfamiliar to most people yet – as the proliferation of vast and ambitious stone theatres throughout the empire ...

A friend texted soon after I arrived in New York to see “McNeal,” the new play by Ayad Akhtar at Lincoln Center Theater’s Vivian Beaumont starring Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr. in his Broadway debut.

Euripides’ genius is shown by the manner in which he shows the horrors and pain of a war. But it is not done through ...