Rami Malek and Indira Varma star in a London production that uses dance brilliantly but lacks emotional connection ...

As with buses, so with productions of Oedipus – you wait for ages for one to come along and then two arrive almost simultaneously. Writer/director Robert Icke set the bar teeteringly high last autumn ...

On 4 February the UK and Ireland tour of KINKY BOOTS celebrated its gala night at the Palace Theatre Manchester. Pop Icon and ...

Classics like Animal Farm are tough to stage, partly because they’re produced so often. To make a lasting impact, a ...

Robert De Niro won his second Oscar in 1981 for playing a boxing champ in Raging Bull. And now he has been chosen as the ...

Where Icke’s was all sleekness and surgical precision, this one, co-directed by Matthew Warchus and choreographer Hofesh ...

Ella Hickson’s epic and revelatory version of Sophocles’ transcendent tragedy, Oedipus, co-directed by Hofesh ...

What oracle could have predicted that Freddie Mercury and Oedipus Rex might cross paths? Yet that’s exactly what’s happening ...

It’s difficult to imagine anyone watching Oedipus without having prior knowledge of the story’s brutal twist - especially the ...

Sudden blackouts blind the audience, but set design is the most interesting thing about this unbalanced production of the ...

Rami Malek and Indira Varma, © Manuel Harlan. The opening is dazzling. A chant of Oedipus. A man trapped in a smoky shaft of light, unable to escape his destiny. A blackout and d ...

This overcooked, jarring production is the latest iteration of West End star casting and the craze has surely reached a nadir ...