Playwright-director Robert Icke drops the “rex” in Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” because he sets the tragedy in the contemporary world where the title character is running to be prime minister of the U.K.

For somebody with the vocal range of a classically trained actor, being partly obscured like this would be no disadvantage. Malek is not that kind of actor. His mercurial talents thrive in close-ups, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are superb as a doomed political power couple in Robert Icke’s adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy. By ...