The Wayne Theatre's 2025-2026 ERAS production season begins in August with Rodgers and Hammerstein's enchanting musical, ...

IN the early years of this century, the Aurora Nova programme of visual and physical theatre illuminated the Edinburgh Festival Fringe ...

An Iranian director is breathing new life into William Shakespeare's "King Lear" with a bold staging in Tehran infused with ...

Opinion: Dr. Miranda Fay Thomas explores the history behind - and relevance of - William Shakespeare's masterpiece King Lear, currently playing at Dublin's Gate Theatre. Filmmaker Francis Ford ...

Visitors to the thrilling, trimmed-down Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company production of King Lear (Griffin ... as the text relays), and then Lear cradling a dead Cordelia at the end, resonantly ...

the National Changgeuk Company of Korea presents the international premiere of its interpretation of King Lear. Six years ago, the Southbank Centre hosted NCCK’s Trojan Women, and with this work ...

While we tend to bottle up these emotions in everyday life, the tragic theatre provides a safe environment ... Bell Shakespeare’s King Lear, directed by Peter Evans, delivers excitingly well ...

Kathryn Hunter played King ... at the National Theatre in London, where all four actors gathered backstage to talk to the FT about what it is like to play the best part in Shakespeare. Cordelia ...

The show tells the story of a youth theatre company as they rehearse a new play that responds to William Shakespeare’s tragedy, King Lear ... written for Lear’s daughter, Cordelia.

At first, Sapani’s Lear strikes us as a surprisingly violent, physically aggressive man, whose gradual descent into infantile madness and extreme vulnerability is therefore more disturbing. Upon ...

The honest response of Cordelia (Gloria Obianyo) is spoken to Lear, not the world — and in his refusal to heed it or any of the advice offered by his closest companions, the king becomes yet ...

LEAR is an all-female and non-binary production from Manchester-based feminist theatre collective Unseemly ... the furious King disowns Cordelia. Goneril and Regan then work to take advantage ...