“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...