West End OEDIPUS To Transfer To Broadway

This was maybe the best thing I saw all of last year on the west end and I can’t believe it’s actually coming here. Do yourself a favor and get tickets when you can because this production is remarkable. Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are already front runners for next seasons Tony Awards.

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I was unfortunate enough to only see the other Oedipus when I was in London, and wished the whole time it was this one. So this is great news.

Exceptional theatre. One of the best things I saw last year. Should be coming over as an Olivier winner for Manville and Revival.

This was not a good play. The only tension was how are they going to mirror a modern version of the plot to it's original. The answer: not very well. It got good reviews and Manville was good, and somehow it got a bunch of Oliver nominations and a transfer! I'm guessing the New York critics will call it out for the mediocre pablum it is...

Updated On: 3/6/25 at 02:39 PM

wonder if June Watson is gonna be in the cast as well. That would be awesome.

Thrilled to see this.


MickeyJo kept mentioning a transfer possibility in his Olivier’s video. Didn’t mention Broadway though.

jared123 said: "To echo what others have said, this was the best show I saw last year"


Well I heard from this one person online it was bad. Hopefully this doesn’t steal a theatre from the next jukebox bio musical or that rumored stage adaptation of Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa.

FWIW I would buy a ticket to the broadway stage adaptation of bad grandpa

Owen22 said: "This was not a good play. The only tension was how are they going to mirror a modern version of the plot to it's original. The answer: not very well. It got good reviews and Manville was good, and somehow it got a bunch of Oliver nominations and a transfer! I'm guessing the New York critics will call it out for the mediocre pablum it is..."

Please tell me I am not the only person who had to look up the word "pablum" :)

Other than that very excited to see Lesley Manville.

Updated On: 3/6/25 at 04:16 PM

Owen22 said: "This was not a good play. The only tension was how are they going to mirror a modern version of the plot to it's original. The answer: not very well. It got good reviews and Manville was good, and somehow it got a bunch of Oliver nominations and a transfer! I'm guessing the New York critics will call it out for the mediocre pablum it is..."

It was not a good play, you're right. It was excellent, electric, witty and thrilling.

To me it was pitch perfect.

Well, I realize I was in the minority. But I didn't know until this thread how well it did on the West End, though I do remember it did get good reviews, but I don't trust the Brit Crits much anyway (maybe the Time Out guy...?) And I did see it in previews so maybe it got better? My problem was I didn't believe the events leading up and including the last quarter of the play. How he desperately tried to parallel the original play's events with this modern (somewhat lazily conceived) political story and it just didn't work for me. However, I was also not a fan of Ike's modern retelling of Schnitzler's The Doctor either. But like Manville in this, I loved Juliet Stevenson.