Resident Ensemble Players’ King Lear is not a safe, reverential staging—it is a bold, bracing confrontation with one of ...

The advantages of being a part of a family are so obvious that losing that affiliation, intentionally or not, is tragic.

Season three shifts the setting to Thailand. There, the show’s satire of super-wealth is framed through not only the lens of Buddhism, but also through many of Shakespeare’s great tragedies: Hamlet, ...

The Thailand-set season’s satire of super-wealth is framed through the lens of Buddhism and also William Shakespeare’s great ...

How Shakespeare can help us shift from the accumulation of wealth, power and status to a search for our deeper purpose ...

That same year, for example, the Theatre Royal at Drury Lane had staged King Lear with a happy ending: Cordelia marries Edgar, and Lear, Gloucester and Kent all survive to enjoy a peaceful dotage.

When Zurich-based attorney Cordelia Bähr realized elderly women were dying at higher rates from extreme heat, she didn’t wait for politicians to act—she took them to court. As lead counsel ...

King Charles was recently hospitalized due to side effects from his ongoing cancer treatment, which inevitably kicked off speculation that Prince William could take the throne sooner rather than ...