Robert De Niro is on the mend. The “Goodfellas” star, 82, was photographed with his right arm in a sling while attending a Broadway performance of “Oedipus” at Studio 54 in New York City on Wednesday. De Niro stepped backstage after the show, where he greeted cast members and showed support for the production. The … Read more
Theater review OEDIPUS 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 befalling any politician today. And even if his sticky situation were to somehow happen to an average Joe, it would … Read more
Roundabout Theater Company, the largest nonprofit on Broadway, will present three very different classics next season: a Greek tragedy, a drawing-room comedy and a monster musical. The English writer and director Robert Icke’s “Oedipus,” a new version of the seminal Sophocles drama about a king who inadvertently kills his father and marries his mother, will … Read more
“Music” is a contemporary retelling of the Oedipus legend, though the parallels between the director Angela Schanelec’s experimental drama and the original Greek myth are elusive by design. In the beginning of the film, a crew of young people pull up to a craggy Grecian coastline, among them Jon (Aliocha Schneider), whose feet, like Sophocles’ … Read more