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

The first half of the show, before intermission, was highly entertaining. We were introduced to King Lear (Tommy Liddy) and ...

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

Wargrave Theatre presents A Bunch of AmateursWoodclyffe Hall, WargraveWednesday, April 2Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s funny fable playfully probes what it means to be an accomplished actor in a ...

Four hundred years after it was written, King Lear resonates as never before in ... (Bell tolling) Attend the lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester. I shall, my lord. Meantime we shall express ...

American Factory,” “Nomadland,” “A Face in the Crowd” and more tell stories that can help us make sense of Trump’s ...

Apparently a doddering old king, Lear is an attractive figure to pin ... Regan and Goneril goad Regan’s husband Cornwall to put out Gloucester’s eyes in a shocking paroxysm of onstage violence.

The Bristol Shakespeare Society craft a frighteningly powerful and visually immersive performance of King Lear, serving a ...

In Richard II, John of Gaunt says to the Duchess of Gloucester that there is nothing ... goal of the endless accumulation of wealth. In King Lear, Shakespeare shows us how money-making can become ...

Big Issue: If Brian Haw had been a Shakespearean character, what would his role have been? Mark Rylance: In King Lear, an old man, Gloucester, is tied to a chair, about to be blinded, when a servant ...