TEHRAN – The Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) in Tehran will screen the recorded stage performance of William Shakespeare’s ...

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.

“Look there, look there!” Lear whispers over Cordelia’s body in an incredible echo of the warning given him by the loyal Kent (Eleanor de Rohan) back before it was all too late.

Any director worth his salt who tackles "King Lear" will attempt to redefine the center in Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy: mythical, cosmic chaos or earthbound human suffering; railing madness or ...

Cordelia comforts her father, King Lear, after he’s been betrayed by his other daughters.© Universal History Archive/Getty Images ...

As the storm subsides and his other, wicked daughters continue to pursue Lear’s life, Cordelia (now the queen of France) rescues her father.

In King Lear with Sheep this disjunction between what we know and we believe is more than apparent ”“ it’s unavoidable. A struggling sheep is not subtle and so Cordelia-sheep’s tragic death is less ...

Cordelia and the Fool have no scenes in common, so there’s no problem in casting them with the same actor. Indeed, there’s some speculation that the earliest productions of “King Lear ...

Actor Patrick Page and director Simon Godwin discuss the success of their record-breaking “King Lear” at Shakespeare Theatre Company.

Lear loses it when his beloved Cordelia (Malkia Stampley) refuses to play along; having disinherited her, he banishes his protesting wingman, Kent (Bryce Lord). The sisters – Goneril (Jacque ...

‘King Lear’: Theater Review Glenda Jackson returns to Broadway to tackle one of the greatest of classical theater roles in a gender-blind production of 'King Lear' that also features Ruth ...

Shakespeare's "King Lear," so grand in its scope, so dark in its vision, is not a play about a single man. But the new Broadway production tends to make you forget this. Playing the maddened and ...