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FOR RELEASE ON THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2025 

MARK STRONG & LESLEY MANVILLE
IN
“OEDIPUS”
A NEW ADAPTATION CREATED BY
ROBERT ICKE
AFTER SOPHOCLES
TO OPEN ON BROADWAY
THIS FALL
AT STUDIO 54
AFTER SOLD-OUT & RECORD-BREAKING
WEST END RUN
DIRECTED BY ROBERT ICKE

**14 WEEKS ONLY**

New York, NY (Thursday, March 6) – Producers Sonia Friedman Productions, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, and Patrick Catullo, in association with the Roundabout Theatre Company, announced today that the sold-out, West End sensation Oedipus – a bold and electrifying adaptation created by Robert Icke after Sophocles – will transfer to Broadway this fall for a strictly limited 14-week engagement.

Starring Olivier Award winners Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, reprising their critically acclaimed and current Olivier-nominated roles as ‘Oedipus’ and ‘Jocasta,’ and directed by Icke, Oedipus will begin performances this November at Roundabout’s Studio 54 (254 West 54th Street).

This production has also been nominated for four 2025 Olivier Awards, including Best Director and Best Revival of a Play, cementing it as one of the most celebrated theatrical events of the year.

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Strong, last seen on Broadway in the Tony Award®-winning A View From the Bridge (for which he earned a Tony nomination), returns in a career-defining performance. Manville, an Academy Award^® nominee, makes her highly anticipated Broadway debut.

Hailed as a “tightly sprung, gasp-inducing, modern-day political tale of truth and lies” (The Guardian), Icke’s visionary revival was nothing short of a sensation. After opening at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre on October 4, 2024, Oedipus became an instant phenomenon, concluding its record-breaking run on January 4, 2025. Across 13 electrifying weeks, it became the highest-grossing limited-run production in Wyndham’s history, with its final week setting a new box office record for the storied venue.

“Electric” (Observer) and urgent, it didn’t just bring Greek tragedy back to the West End—it redefined it. Named the Observer’s No. 1 Best of Culture 2024, this Oedipus played like a political thriller, gripping audiences in breathless suspense until its final, devastating moment.

It’s election night. The polls predict a landslide victory. Everything is about to change.

After his revelatory Oresteia, Icke (1984, The Doctor) transforms Sophocles’ epic tragedy into an essential, explosive, sensual human thriller catapulting the secrets of the past into a high-stakes present. Led by Olivier Award winners and current 2025 nominees Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, this production “set the stage on fire” (The Guardian). Manville’s ‘Jocasta’ is “magnetic and magnificent” (iNews), while Strong delivers a “fearless, sometimes fearsome” (Independent) performance, brimming with raw intensity and tragic inevitability. Their chemistry is “dazzling” (Sunday Times), their presence “transfixing” (Financial Times), and together, they drive the drama toward its shattering conclusion.

Robert Icke’s Oedipus was originally produced in Dutch by Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and was presented at the Edinburgh International Festival.

This fall, Broadway audiences will experience what London critics and theatergoers already know: Oedipus isn’t just a revival. It’s a revelation.

PRAISE FOR ‘OEDIPUS’

★ ★ ★ ★ ★
The Guardian

★ ★ ★ ★ ★
The Observer

★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Financial Times

★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Mail on Sunday

★ ★ ★ ★
Sunday Times

★ ★ ★ ★
Time Out

★ ★ ★ ★
Independent

★ ★ ★ ★

Evening Standard

★ ★ ★ ★
Broadway World

★ ★ ★ ★
Sunday Express

★ ★ ★ ★
The Stage

★ ★ ★ ★
WhatsOnStage

★ ★ ★ ★ ★
“Mark Strong and Lesley Manville electrify ancient saga turned political thriller… Robert Icke’s modern retelling is riveting from beginning to end.”
The Guardian

★ ★ ★ ★ ★
“Robert Icke brilliantly remakes Sophocles tragedy for our times.”
The Financial Times

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

“There will surely not be a more powerful production in the UK this year.”
The Observer

★ ★ ★ ★

“Mark Strong and Lesley Manville enthrall. Together they are dynamite.”
Sunday Express

“It blew my mind: an elegant, devastating, and brilliantly modernised take on the thousands-of-years-old Greek tragedy, home to tremendous performances from Lesley Manville and Mark Strong.”
Time Out

“The truth is literally blinding here—and deafening, too—but Icke makes it impossible to look away, even for a moment.”
Independent

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