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Owen22 said: "MemorableUserName said: "Holdren in Vulture is mostly (?) positive. Or more positive than not?

I’m Not a Regular Mom, I’m a Cool Mom: Robert Icke Does Oedipus

Robert Icke, known for dramatic remakings of ancient plays, turns to Sophocles' 'Oedipus,' and his production, while not flawless, is vivid and potent.

"In this Oedipus—premiered in Dutch at Toneelgroep and then remounted in the West End with its current stars, Lesley Manville and Mark Strong, as the fated mother-and-son/wife-and-husband at its center—Icke puts an eleventh-hour monologue roughly the size and weight of a city bus in Jocasta’s mouth. It’s where we learn her story in all its graphic detail, and though Manville is one hell of an actor—utterly at ease in one moment, ferocious in the next, destroyed in the one after that—even she can’t quite mask the overwriting, the authorial frisson over putting this character through really bad things, but, you know, in order to demonstrate that they’re really bad.

It’s a shame, because this Oedipus, when it tries a little less hard, is also full of potency. Manville and Strong crackle together —their chemistry is steamy and genuine and, in some of the production’s best moments, after all terrible secrets have been revealed, so is their body-wracking devastation."


Thank you Sara. This playis SOOO overwritten!!! And boy does it try too hard!

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I don’t buy Holdren’s case that Icke's tilting of the narrative so forcefully towards the monologue that he wrote for Jocasta is some kind of male performative feminism. Well, then again, maybe…

sppunk said: "The NYT reviews mattering left years ago. Now it’s click bait."

As are their political endorsements.

RippedMan said: "Does any theater in the world do that? I would think it would be a logistically nightmare Especially if you're wanting to do it on that level. Summer Stock very much still exists."

Munich’s Bavarian State Opera rotates something like 15 productions during its summer festival but then they're Germans. 

ACL2006 said: "People are going to be disappointed to only see the Muppets for less than ten minutes."

On the positive side, it sounds like they might be available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs. 

The U.S.'s greatest contemporary theater company... a national treasure.

The revival of Richard Greenberg's "The Assembled Parties" at Hampstead Theater is getting raves. 

 

In a drama, I would say what we might get out of characters who are unpleasant and perhaps in stasis would be the ability to see parts of ourselves in them.

I haven't seen it since the restoration of the illuminated latticework proscenium. I love that 1910's American hodgepodge style... it is vulgar but it is also super charming. It is as significant a period in American design as Art Deco, just not as championed. And when it is restored correctly, you realize that it wasn't meant to be taken completely seriously. It was meant to be a bit silly and over the top. 

https://schulershook.com/projects/james-earl-jones-theatre

WiCkEDrOcKS said: "Hot take, but if this play is any indication of the qualityof productionsRudin plans on mounting, I say bring it on."
 

The play is a Steppenwolf production, developed solely with resources connected to Stepppenwolf, I believe. Rudin, Diller are producing its New York run. 

I agree, it is excellent, not a weak link in the whole production.

Local 802 AFM, the potentially striking musicians, serenaded the marchers in the Labor Feeder March. They were fantastic!

macbeth said: "https://www.onstageblog.com/broadway/2025/10/9/dont-call-it-broadway-if-youre-paying-tour-wages

agreed, even if I don't love agreeing with him."

Yes, I appreciate the coverage especially since more legit orgs aren't covering it. 

The touring contract also appears to have different collective bargaining rights attached to it and, if I am reading the Playbill article below correctly, would not go on strike should one be called. So this does sound plausibly strategic...

https://playbill.com/article/broadway-musicians-have-voted-to-authorize-a-strike

I agree that the promos of this production have been perfect, the essence of a teaser, not giving away too much but just enough to get audiences excited. 

Re: will it sell on Broadway? Who knows but it will be excellent and memorable. It's already a legendary production. 

Falsettolands said: "I don't want to be one of those usersthat comeon here just to trash a show, but I wanted to throw into the unanimous praise I've seen here to sayI simply could not stand this play. I've never thought Wohl was a great playwright, but I find Grand Horizons and Make Believe to be far stronger. What seemed to crash and burn about Liberationthe most was:

EDSOSLO858 said: "DTLI Consensus:Pity on, dudes — Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter provide the existential dread in Jamie Lloyd’s latest hit-and-miss revival.

12 mixed (including the NYT), 7 positive.

https://didtheylikeit.com/shows/waiting-for-godot/

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Holdren’s Vulture review is a pan of Lloyd’s direction, an evisceration. The only thing “mixed” about it is the way it nearly completely ignores reviewing the two stars. 

MemorableUserName said: "Keep it up, folks.

https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/1nlpcm4/sinclairs_abc_stations_back_out_of_airing_charlie/





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Good, perhaps they don't want to pay out any more settlements to former employees who successfully call them on their racism.

https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/sinclair-broadcast-group-pay-100000-race-discrimination-case