It’s no secret that virtually anyone who plays a superhero within the Marvel universe gets absolutely ripped on the studio’s ...

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

Elektra feels like a work in progress, an early read-through in which the rough edges are yet to be smoothed. Even Brie ...

Elektra at the Duke of York’s Theatre | ★★☆☆☆ After two and a half millennia, Sophocles can still pull in a crowd. This week saw the opening of Oedipus at the Old Vic, in which professional Creepy Lil ...

Led by Oscar-winning Hollywood starlet Brie Larson, it's a snarling, punk travesty of Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy ...

Stockard Channing also features in this London staging of Anne Carson's translation, directed by Daniel Fish, whose radical 'Oklahoma!' rethink drew acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic.

Don’t be fooled by the presence of shaven-headed Captain Marvel star Brie Larson in a Bikini Kill band T-shirt – this dream-like staging of Sophocles’s Elektra is closer to the spirit of ...

Brie Larson is the latest American star to make their London debut in a dud There’s little to delight the eye – a white screen offsets the black rear wall, a distracting blimp hovers above ...

What Icke’s take did so compellingly was to emphasise the connection, the chemistry, the sexual frisson between Oedipus and Jocasta, thus making the play’s domino chain of revelations even more ...