Ohio Shakespeare Festival's 2025-2026 season opens with "The Tempest" at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, featuring regendered ...

From left: Matthew J. Harris, Michael Milligan, Patrick Page and Shirine Babb in “King Lear,” directed by Simon Godwin at Shakespeare Theatre Company. (DJ Corey) Review by Peter Marks Patrick ...

Glenda Jackson returns to Broadway to tackle one of the greatest of classical theater roles in a gender-blind production of 'King Lear' that also features Ruth Wilson, Jayne Houdyshell, Elizabeth ...

Any director worth his salt who tackles "King Lear" will attempt to redefine the center in Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy: mythical, cosmic chaos or earthbound human suffering; railing madness or ...

If “King Lear” and Kamala Harris’ estrangement from her father make anything clear, it is that no amount of money, power or threat of bad publicity can fully protect a family from ...

The Baron's Men have delivered a haunting and deeply resonant production of Shakespeare's 'King Lear' at the Curtain Theatre, capturing the play's raw emotional depth and complex themes of power ...

This full text version of King Lear is divided into 40 short scenes or scene segments. ... Albany seeks Lear and Cordelia, but Edmund argues for their being sequestered for a day to let the troops ...

The director Peter Brook called Shakespeare’s King Lear “a mountain whose summit has never been reached, the way up strewn with the shattered bodies of earlier visitors.” Now Sir Antony Sher ...

On October 26, The Shed will open a 50-performances-only production of King Lear starring and co-directed by Kenneth Branagh—he helms the play with Rob Ashford and Lucy Skilbeck—and featuring ...

On Monday, March 10, I shoved my battered copy of Stephen Orgel’s edition of Lear into my pocket and took the subway one stop north from my office at 116th St. to our newer Manhattanville campus ...

‘King Lear’: TV Review. Running under two hours, Amazon's version of William Shakespeare's 'King Lear' is oddly thin and brisk, but you can't go wrong watching Anthony Hopkins as Lear.