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“King Lear,” starring Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival founder Geoffrey Sheehan as Lear, has performances July 9, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 25, 27 and 31 and Aug. 2.
An Iranian director is breathing new life into William Shakespeare's "King Lear" with a bold staging in Tehran infused with rock music and a dazzling light show to attract younger audiences.
There are several full productions of William Shakespeare plays in Connecticut this week, plus readings, discussions and other events to honor his April 23 birthday.
None of this has stopped King Lear remaining among the most quotable and psychologically dense of his tragedies. Roxana Silbert hasn’t quite solved the age-old problems in her propulsive new ...
The style of King Lear makes the film difficult to watch, yet impossible to look away from. It’s engaging through its alienating quality, and rewards revisiting, if not only to make better sense of ...
Review: Kenneth Branagh’s ‘King Lear’ Howls Into A Stormy, Rushed Muddle The great Kenneth Branagh leads and co-directs a decidedly not-great production at the Shed.
At two hours with no intermission, this stunning Branagh-helmed and -starring production is, in the best possible way, “King Lear’s” greatest hits.
“King Lear” is about lots of things—power, family, helplessness. It is also about language, both the slippery tricks of lies and the sometime solace of truth.
“We chose King Lear two years ago for Dennis Raveneau,” says Emily Ernst, artistic director of the Dallas troupe Fair Assembly, who’s co-directing the ...
William Shakespeare: five plays, Henry IV, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, King Lear and The Temepest ...
Much Ado About Something Liz Gill spends a very entertaining day with the Royal Shakespeare Company theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon If you’re going to be insulted it may as well be by a genius.