Babes With Blades Theatre Company announced new dates for William Shakespeare's KING LEAR, directed by Alison Dornheggen with ...

The 82-year-old actor gives a performance of absolute authenticity and clarity as the erratic demagogue in a uniformly impressive production ...

Sheffield’s Crucible welcomes the first of its Shakespeare double-bill ...

In playing the titular monarch in director Titas Halder’s intense and affecting King Lear, Ian McDiarmid, the great Scottish ...

King Lear is a play of disguise and change. Kent and Edgar deliberately disguise themselves as, respectively, the servant ...

In a notable instance of one behemoth assessing another, the director Peter Brook once called King Lear “a mountain whose summit has never been reached, the way up strewn with the shattered bodies of ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Kenneth Branagh and Jessica Revell as Lear and Cordelia. Photo: Marc J. Franklin/Courtesy The Shed ...

Fakharany’s return to King Lear at Cairo’s National Theatre, directed by Shady Sorour and co-starring Tarek El-Dessouki, ...

As an old ruler is struggling with his grip on reality, his most trusted advisors and beloved children turn on him — and battle it out for ultimate power. Sound familiar? That’s because it’s William ...

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. By Daniel Fienberg It’s been over 20 ...

The creative forces involved in this site-specific "King Lear," most of them faculty members at CalArts, deserve an unmitigated A for effort. This is a big, provocative and occasionally mesmerizing ...

There comes a time in any worthwhile production of "King Lear" -- and Jonathan Kent's largely stirring Almeida production is certainly that -- when the sorrowful heart of this mightiest of plays ...