After all, Lear is known as the Mad King. While the cast of performers uses both Shakespearean ... This is my first time seeing Velez, but he embodies a wide range of emotions from sly wickedness to ...

An Iranian director is breathing new life into William Shakespeare's "King Lear" with a bold staging in Tehran infused with rock music and a dazzling light show to attract younger audiences.

The Saturday Symposium and Resident Ensemble Players are partnering together for King Lear. Join us for the day on April 19 and enjoy fascinating discussions, followed by a matinee performance of this ...

Opinion: Dr. Miranda Fay Thomas explores the history behind - and relevance of - William Shakespeare's masterpiece King Lear, currently playing at Dublin's Gate Theatre. Filmmaker Francis Ford ...

The spiritual tumults too sudden and too irrational. None of this has stopped King Lear remaining among the most quotable and psychologically dense of his tragedies. Roxana Silbert hasn’t quite ...

So—a few weeks ago, I saw Kenneth Branagh in “King Lear” at the Shed ... to react to events that unfold in accordance with his wickedness. In response, Parker slows the pacing elsewhere ...

The great Kenneth Branagh leads and co-directs a decidedly not-great production which often feels like a college effort—if the head of your drama department had made Shakespeare films 30-odd ...

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.

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 ...

I refreshed weather updates, watched storm-surge videos. On impulse, I picked up my old college copy of “King Lear” and looked through it for the scene of Lear raving at the storm.

Dennis Raveneau portrays King Lear and Emily Ernst is the Fool in Fair Assembly's upcoming production of Shakespeare's familial tragedy.(Mac Welch) If you’re old enough to play King Lear ...