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Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex is one of the towering works of the human imagination; a play that has captivated audiences and readers alike for centuries. In Freud’s hands, the play became an illustration of ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Icke dusts off the classics the way a restorer brightens an old master painting. His latest project stars Mark Strong and Lesley Manville. The actors Mark Strong, left, and ...

2 hours, no intermission. At Studio 54, 254 W. 54th St. Old “Oedipus” wouldn’t seem an ideal candidate for modernization. It’s hard to imagine the jaw-dropping fate of the legendary Theban king ...

A countdown clock ticks down at the election headquarters of a man named Oedipus, a candidate for high political office who has built his campaign on restoring a divided city-state now unable to talk ...

A powerful politician’s night of triumph descends precipitously into waking-nightmare territory in the transfixing “Oedipus,” an adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy from the British writer-director ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. It’s election night in Robert Icke’s “Oedipus,” a modern retelling of Sophocles’ “Oedipus the King” that must be ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are superb as a doomed political power couple in Robert Icke’s adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy. By ...

NEW YORK — A countdown clock ticks down at the rear of the election headquarters of a man named Oedipus, a candidate for high political office who has built his campaign on restoring a divided ...

Playwright-director Robert Icke drops the “rex” in Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” because he sets the tragedy in the contemporary world where the title character is running to be prime minister of the U.K.