OEDIPUS Reviews - Page 3

[Melissa25]

Posted: 12/14/25 at 11:57am

The Christmas Gods blessed me with winning a rush seat in the 3rd row, center orchestra and I am so very grateful. This is definitely in my top 5 favorites for the year. What a thrilling, well executed ride with acting I will never forget. Truly a must-see!  Manville is Tony bound for sure. 

[Fordham2015]

Posted: 12/14/25 at 7:37pm

Manville scheduled for Colbert tomorrow night

[Falsettolands]

Posted: 12/14/25 at 8:05pm

I doubt anyone needs a dissenting opinion, but after seeing this on Friday I cannot say I consider it a "must see." Both Strong and Manville are perfectly excellent, but I found the adaptation to be uninspired and lacking any wit or bite. Go for some good acting. Do not go if you're looking for a good play.

Updated On: 12/14/25 at 08:05 PM

[gibsons2]

Posted: 12/14/25 at 8:19pm

Falsettolands said: "I doubt anyone needs a dissenting opinion, but after seeing this on Friday I cannot say I consider it a "must see." Both Strong and Manville are perfectly excellent, but I found the adaptation to be uninspired and lacking any wit or bite. Go for some good acting. Do not go if you're looking for a good play."

Interesting. After seeing all Broadway plays from this season (except Art, just didn't pan out), I thought Oedipus is the only truly must see play of this fall. Everything else so far is skippable. Maybe Liberation deserves to be seen also. Having very high hopes for Bug. 

Come to think of it, Oedipus was at the bottom of my list in September. Thank God I saw it. A true masterpiece imo

Updated On: 12/14/25 at 08:19 PM

[Falsettolands]

Posted: 12/14/25 at 8:24pm

gibsons2 said: "Falsettolands said: "I doubt anyone needs a dissenting opinion, but after seeing this on Friday I cannot say I consider it a "must see." Both Strong and Manville are perfectly excellent, but I found the adaptation to be uninspired and lacking any wit or bite. Go for some good acting. Do not go if you're looking for a good play."

Interesting. After seeing all Broadway plays from this season (except Art, just didn't pan out), I thought Oedipus is the only truly must see play of this fall. Everything else so far is skippable. Maybe Liberation deserves to be seen also. Having very high hopes for Bug.

Come to think of it, Oedipus was at the bottom of my list in September. Thank God I saw it. A true masterpiece imo"

I haven't really enjoyed a single play on Broadway this season. I really enjoyed quite a few Off-Broadway (Cartozians, Queens, Other Americans.) I saw Liberation during its off-broadway run and very much disliked it. Oedipus and Little Bear kind of sit tied for me (underwhelming plays with really excellent performances) I want to also clarify that I will not be attending Marjorie Prime by choice, but I don't doubt that the performances are probably great.

Updated On: 12/14/25 at 08:24 PM

[Fordham2015]

Posted: 12/16/25 at 7:07am

Lesley Manville mentioned the people filming the curtain call on Colbert. "Can't something live in our souls?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6eSSy_rX2A&t=327s

[WldKingdomHM]

Posted: 12/22/25 at 10:06pm

Saw this tonight and it was thrilling! Engrave Leslie’s Tony Award ASAP.

Warning: Dont take a camera out and film the curtain call in the front row. Leslie was not happy and gave the audience member the death stare and ended up shaking her head a bunch.

Today Tix has rush and we sat third row. 
 

See this asap

[TBone]

Posted: 12/22/25 at 11:42pm

WldKingdomHM said: "Saw this tonight and it was thrilling! Engrave Leslie’s Tony Award ASAP.

Warning: Dont take a camera out and film the curtain call in the front row. Leslie was not happy and gave the audience member the death stare and ended up shaking her head a bunch."

Saw the show on 12/16 from the second row. The gentleman in front of us did the exact same thing and she literally gave him the death stare for the entire curtain call - he didn’t get the hint. At first I was embarrassed for him, but then I grew angry when he kept filming and it was obvious that he just didn’t care. 

Updated On: 12/22/25 at 11:42 PM

[Auggie27]

Posted: 1/4/26 at 7:24pm

Thanks once again to TDF, I was there this afternoon in a packed house, an audience that leaned forward almost en masse in rapt attention. The unhurried, low key naturalism that slyly  launches the action as the characters gather to celebrate of happiest night of their lives feels like an especially brilliant directorial choice in hindsight. The play's journey toward revelation upon revelation via 2500 year-old plot machinery makes the suspension of disbelief a decisive ingredient, and seals the deal for this masterwork of a production. Only by securing our full acceptance of the circumstances as recognizable reality can the scale of the tragedy engage us - and this play grabs us by the lapels and demands our investment.. Even knowing several staging spoilers, I was genuinely shocked (in the best sense) by Icke's theatrical sleight of hand. I can't shake the feelings this Oedipus excavates - some likely from our subconscious - nor forget the potency of the images. The synergy of Icke's craft and Sophocles' pre-psychology comprehension of human boundaries messes with our heads, no other way to put it. No spoiler, but a late moment between the Strong and the poignant Anne Reid had me suddenly in tears of the unexpected kind - the best in the theater. If anyone is still wondering whether to go - go: a month remains.   

Updated On: 1/4/26 at 07:24 PM