What oracle could have predicted that Freddie Mercury and Oedipus Rex might cross paths ... That accolade belongs to a gyrating chorus of dancers representing the desperate people of Thebes.

The composer who put Anna Nicole Smith’s life onstage has a new piece: an adaptation of a cult movie about child abuse.

Imagine stepping into the theatre and being instantly enveloped by a pulsing, musical heartbeat—an unmistakable sign that you ...

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 ...

Just as it’s hardly Oedipus’s fault that he kills his dad ... In fact, it’s what we get instead of a chorus: a cluster of dancers doing extraordinary things with their bodies, turning ...

Academy Award winner Rami Malek and Olivier Award winer Indira Varma star in a new production of Oedipus at the Old Vic, and ...

Either way, here we are with the second major London production of Sophocles’ Oedipus within months ... Shechter’s brilliant chorus of dancers swirl across the space like dust clouds ...

The Oscar-winning star is the uncanny centre of this season’s second take on the tragedy Oedipus, following Robert ... but there’s more tension in a single chorus member’s bent finger ...

Oedipus starring Rami Malek and Indira Varma has finally arrived at the Old Vic and the tension was palpable from start to finish.

Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Hedda in Hedda Gabler, May in Bedlam, Des-Neiges in Les Belles Soeurs, Jocasta in Oedipus Rex (Theatre at Grenfell); Silvia in Two Gentlemen of Verona (New ...