When Hofesh Shechter took on the choreography for Broadway’s 2015 Fiddler on the Roof, I worried. How was it possible to improve on the brilliant Jerome Robbins original? Shechter didn’t improve on it; he rediscovered its wildness—in contemporary terms. The steps grew bigger and rougher. The shtetl folk’s violence and joy lost the accumulated patina of ritual for the dangerous unpredictability of feeling. The British-Israeli’s latest assignment is a considerably older classic: Oedipus. There are many reasons to salivate over this Old Vic production: the movie star Rami Malek as Oedipus, the Olivier-crowned actress Indira Varma as the clever man’s mother-wife, and the new script by the prolific, provocative, and acclaimed young playwright Ella Hickson. But Shechter on Greek chorus is reason enough. Over the course of a fruitful, massively successful career, his superpower has always been the group, in all its ecstatic, remorseless power and threat. —Apollinaire Scherr