Theater & Dance This ‘King Lear’ might be the best our theater critic has ever seen. Director Simon Godwin’s sleek production, with a consummate Patrick Page as the vain and foolish king, is ...

WASHINGTON - They wanted to create a "King Lear" that percolated like a thriller. And that's the strong brew audiences are getting - in what has turned out to be one of the biggest hits in the ...

‘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.

Optimist Theatre’s just-opened production of “King Lear” – ninth and worst of its annual offerings of free Shakespeare – triggered an emotion I’ve never experienced, in watching ...

Their “King Lear” — a sleek, streamlined version at the Klein Theatre, during which Lear’s psychic decline is made stunningly, transparently human — is something of a sensation: ...

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

David Morse told UPI he sees a glimmer of William Shakespeare's doomed patriarch King Lear in Harris Sinclair, the character he plays in the new series "We Were Liars." ...

King Lear feels so resonant to our time—to any time, really—and I'm wondering how you feel about that idea of the multi-generational aspect of the play and its timelessness.

“King Lear” ends with almost all the characters dying, but because this is a play – a fiction, a fantasy – they get to ask ...

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, the ...

LEARWIFE By J. R. Thorp. Perhaps you know the story of “King Lear.” The old king, on the verge of madness, decides to split his kingdom among his three daughters, giving the largest share to ...

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 ...