From left: Matthew J. Harris, Michael Milligan, Patrick Page and Shirine Babb in “King Lear,” directed by Simon Godwin at Shakespeare Theatre Company. (DJ Corey) Review by Peter Marks Patrick ...

‘King Lear’: TV Review. Running under two hours, Amazon's version of William Shakespeare's 'King Lear' is oddly thin and brisk, but you can't go wrong watching Anthony Hopkins as Lear.

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. The production’s fleet and feathery interpretation of ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Angela Lashbrook LEARWIFE By J. R. Thorp Perhaps you know the story of “King Lear.” The ...

The question on everyone's lips in Los Angeles: "Is the Royal Shakespeare Company's 'King Lear' worth it?" -- worth the hype, the buzz, the extravagant eBay ducat auctions?

Having your eyeballs pulled out — an act infamously featured in “King Lear” — is horrific. Yet in the Public Theater production that opened last night, the scene barely registers. It’s … ...

In Chicago Shakespeare Theater's modern-dress production of "King Lear," directed by Barbara Gaines, Larry Yando plays the mad old king as a snarling, capricious Frank Sinatra buff who has one ...

King Lear. Broadway Play Revival. Academy of Music; E. 14th St. and Irving Place, New York, NY, New York, NY; SYNOPSIS: In a world ravaged by global warming, pandemics, and natural disaster, King ...

On Monday, March 10, I shoved my battered copy of Stephen Orgel’s edition of Lear into my pocket and took the subway one stop north from my office at 116th St. to our newer Manhattanville campus ...

Kenneth Branagh’s ‘King Lear,’ now transferred from London to the Shed, is a fleet two hours, smooth and facile. Kenneth Branagh’s production is fleet and facile. Intelligencer ...

The DVD couples King Lear with The Stranger, a modest Welles effort (compared to, say, The Third Man) but one still giving the Welles’ chill. 1971 Paul Scofield as Lear, Peter Brook director.

Glenda Jackson returns to Broadway to tackle one of the greatest of classical theater roles in a gender-blind production of 'King Lear' that also features Ruth Wilson, Jayne Houdyshell, Elizabeth ...