‘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.

The question on everyone's lips in Los Angeles: "Is the Royal Shakespeare Company's 'King Lear' worth it?" -- worth the hype, the buzz, the extravagant eBay ducat auctions?

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 ...

ILLUSTRATION: Liz Lauren. Chicago. In Chicago Shakespeare Theater's modern-dress production of "King Lear," directed by Barbara Gaines, Larry Yando plays the mad old king as a snarling, ...

Missing almost entirely is the mother of King Lear’s children, the queen. It’s the queen’s tale that the librettist J. R. Thorp tells with her debut novel, “Learwife.” ...

Two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson returns to the stage after a quarter-century in Shakespeare's most demanding role, 'King Lear,' at an age when the monarch wouldn’t be the only one thinking ...