REPRISING his role as King Lear 15 years after he stood in for the late Brian Glover, Barrie Rutter brings a no-nonsense approach to his anti-heroic reading of Shakespeare’s tragic figure ... from ...

Kenneth Branagh’s “King Lear,” which opened Thursday night at the Shed, is a tragedy that doesn’t seem to know why it’s so tragic ... Oswald in front of Gloucester’s castle.

Smack in the middle of Shakespeare’s King Lear, the Earl of Gloucester’s sweet, naïve son reaches rock bottom. Edgar’s been terribly tricked by his bastard half-brother; he’s disinherited ...

“King Lear” features two storylines. Each relates to the disintegration of the family. The first plot involves Gloucester and ... intentionally or not, is tragic. “King Lear” ends with ...

If there’s an actor in King Lear who’s attempting to go deep as he drives forward, it’s Kloska. His Gloucester, though conspicuously young — everyone’s young, even Branagh, whose not ...

The subplot involving the Earl of Gloucester and his sons, Edgar and the illegitimate Edmund, mirrors Lear's tragic descent, adding layers to the narrative. Shakespeare wrote King Lear around ...

"King Lear" is ... of the noble Gloucester, schemes to usurp his legitimate brother Edgar’s inheritance. Edmund’s treachery and manipulations lead Gloucester to betrayal and blindness, both literal ...