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

Sophocles is suddenly everywhere on the city’s stages. In concurrent shows, Rami Malek is playing Oedipus and Brie Larson is ...

Emma Rice’s musical theatre adaptation of Wuthering Heights features a finale where the orphan Hareton – a silent, traumatised man – suddenly emerges sporting a cute kitchen apron over his bare torso.

A rustic figure with an expansive forehead and sprawling beard, Hudson was a classically trained performer and self-educated Greek chorus who spoke through piano, synthesizers, horns and his ...

“I’ve read Ajax,” their companion replied, assuringly. “It’s not complicated.” Maybe it’s this interpretation, then, which frames the mythological drama of Trojan war hero Ajax as an American ...

OEDIPUS currently playing at two West End theatres and Medea at the Loft Theatre in Leamington are evidence, if it were needed, that Greek drama resonates as powerfully today as it did in Athens in ...

After the expansiveness of Oedipus at the Old Vic, complete with dancing chorus, this version of Sophocles’s Elektra specialises in stripped back starkness – and comes with a singing chorus in true ...

And The Fates, the singing trio that provides the show’s, er, Greek chorus, were uniformly solid even with two understudies (Julia Schick and Mikaela Rada), their spot-on harmonies even ...

A rustic figure with an expansive forehead and sprawling beard, Hudson was a classically trained performer and self-educated Greek chorus who spoke through piano, synthesizers, horns and his ...

Nine years on from its Off-Broadway debut, the Tony Award-winning musical — composed and written by Anais Mitchell, from the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice — holds up well. And ...