Any director worth his salt who tackles "King Lear" will attempt to redefine the ... conveys the pained conflict of a man surrounded by wickedness but compelled to do good. As Cordelia, ostracized ...

“King Lear,” many have said ... Even Lady Macbeth, for all her wickedness, is easily understood; although she cries out to the spirits to “fill me from the crown to the toe top-full ...

As wickedness closes in ... Irwin and O’Hara on one stage — and in “King Lear,” no less. It’s nice to see there are still gamblers around, even if the move doesn’t quite pay off ...

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 ...

Do Lear’s daughters love him? What do they bring with them into the space when they gather along with the rest of their father’s court to witness the old king divesting his power and dividing ...

By Maya Phillips Kenneth Branagh’s “King Lear,” which opened Thursday night at the Shed, is a tragedy that doesn’t seem to know why it’s so tragic. The production’s fleet and feathery ...

it is hard not to feel disappointment bordering on dismay at his production of “King Lear,” a work considered by many to be the playwright’s mightiest and most savagely moving achievement.

The question on everyone’s lips in Los Angeles: “Is the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘King Lear’ worth it ... out-of-favor stepsisters whose wickedness reaches full measure ...

King Lear, Timon of Athens ... At one moment, the King who had left humanity to its wickedness, as Lot’s wife left Sodom, cast a glance over his shoulder at the abandoned and abandoning moved ...