Glenda Jackson makes ‘Lear’ her own, while Ruth Wilson brilliantly doubles up as Cordelia and the Fool in a production that shows just how timelessly observant Shakespeare was.

An impassioned King Lear (Fred Curchack) speaks to his court in a scene from Shakespeare Dallas’ production of the tragedy. Performances continue through Saturday. (Jason Janik - Special ...

HOST: And now, from a ring to a king. When rare books expert Devon Eastland discovered a tattered old copy of Shakespeare's King Lear in Vermont in 2022, she could hardly believe her eyes.

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LENOX — Shakespeare & Company will launch its 2021 season with its first production in The New Spruce Theatre, its new outdoor amphitheater, with its first live, in-person performance since the ...

KING LEAR plays through June 5 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Arts. For tickets and more information, click here . Photo of Rafael Jordan and Mark Harelik by Jason Williams .

T here's hardly a William Shakespeare play that hasn't been adapted for the screen at least a dozen times, be it a traditional retelling or a transposition to another setting. King Lear, his ...

Although, in King Lear, Shakespeare owed less to the authors from whom he took his plot than was customary with him in such cases, the general notion that he owed little (which seems to me rather ...