All the more so if the players in question were amateur actors. Even more if the play happened to be “King Lear” — one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, and also one of the thorniest ...

Highlights include “Hamlet,” directed by Simon Godwin and starring Paapa Essiedu (“I May Destroy You”); “King Lear,” directed by RSC artistic director Gregory Doran and starring ...

And in some respects, Trevor Nunn’s spectacular RSC production of “King Lear,” running in limited repertory at BAM with Chekhov’s “Seagull,” actually plays like opera. In a curious way ...

or RSC, about a theater troupe made up of war-displaced amateur actors staging well-received performances of “King Lear” — but so far, only in Ukraine. To Zoe Donegan, the RSC’s head of ...

Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey, who took charge as co-artistic directors of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC ... Ukraine’s “King Lear,” adapted and directed by Vyacheslav Yehorov, first ...

What do the critics make of his performance as King Lear? “I have loved watching Kenneth Branagh pick his way through Shakespeare on stage, from his thrilling Henry V at the RSC at the age of 23 ...

or RSC, about a theater troupe made up of war-displaced amateur actors staging well-received performances of “King Lear” — but so far, only in Ukraine. To Zoe Donegan, the RSC’s head of ...

Highlights include “Hamlet,” directed by Simon Godwin and starring Paapa Essiedu (“I May Destroy You”); “King Lear,” directed by RSC artistic director Gregory Doran and starring ...