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." ...

The play is based on the famed novel by French writer Prosper Mérimée, adapted for the stage by Mohamed Ali Ibrahim, and ...

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

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.

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

The Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festivals continues its new format of alternate performances of two shows as other outdoor ...

Meet Amanda Lear. She’s a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma swathed in a designer ensemble and ready for her close ...

During Sunday’s press conference, veteran actor Yehia El-Fakharany spoke about the upcoming performance of Shakespeare’s King ...

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 ...

King Lear typically runs to about three hours, but this wonderful production, first staged in London last year—directed by Rob Ashford, Branagh and Lucy Skilbeck—comes in at around two, with ...

Resident Ensemble Players’ King Lear is not a safe, reverential staging—it is a bold, bracing confrontation with one of Shakespeare’s most devastating works. Tt is a production that does ...