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Julian Wachner is leaving the Washington Chorus after 10 years as its music director. Replacing him is Scotland-based conductor Christopher Bell. (Scott Suchman) ...
For audience members who are Bayview-Hunters Point residents, Davis hopes that with the chorus in “Crack” they “see themselves and see their community. I think as we walk down the street and ...
All three Oedipus tragedies are given a modern reworking in North Hollywood. By Myron Meisel The Curse of Oedipus Theater Review - P 2014 Presiding over these preordained follies are rivalrous ...
Bold and intellectually stimulating, but also overly literal and dramatically languid, Frank Galati's "Oedipus Complex" adapts the famed Sophoclean tragedy by inserting Dr. Freud throughout the ...
Oedipus, the West End hit starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, will begin its 14-week engagement at Broadway’s Studio 54 on Thursday, October 30, with an opening night set for Thursday ...
Two concurrent London productions of Oedipus might seem like overkill, but they actually worked to demonstrate the versatility of the tragic form.
Academy Award winner Rami Malek and Olivier Award winer Indira Varma star in a new production of Oedipus at the Old Vic, and Stephen Daldry co-directs 'Kyoto' at Soho Place.
Featuring "tremendous" performances from Mark Strong as Oedipus and Lesley Manville as his wife Jocasta, the evening is "as gripping as a thriller, yet weighted with the terrible sense of what ...
Yet where the chorus in Warchus’s new Oedipus serves to remind us of the suffering population outside the palace walls, this chorus only amplifies Elektra’s self-obsession. Larson and Fish want to ...
Oedipus was portrayed by the gospel group The Five Blind Boys of Alabama, and the show was supported by a full-on chorus of several dozen singers.
The treatment of the role of the chorus in these two West End productions are essential to the different meanings they make and how they invite audiences to reflect upon the myth in relation to ...