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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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. By William Shakespeare. Directed by Lindsay M. Palinsky. The Baron’s Men @ The Curtain Theater. 7400 Coldwater Canyon Dr., Austin, TX 78730. Now playing through October 26th, 2024.

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 ...

“King Lear” is about lots of things—power, family, helplessness. It is also about language, both the slippery tricks of lies and the sometime solace of truth.

In this second of two episodes, John looks at the loyal but provocative character of the Fool. He also discovers that, since the 17th century, critics including Samuel Johnson have struggled with the ...