At 82, Glenda Jackson is the right age to play King Lear. But rare is the octogenarian who has the regal bearing, command of language and the stamina to play the title character in Shakespeare’s ...

Kenneth Branagh plays the title role in a new production of William Shakespeare’s King Lear , set in the barbarous landscape of Ancient Britain. Featuring a cast of rising stars from the Royal ...

With the arrival of her mighty Lear, Glenda Jackson has, in the span of a year, provided Broadway with twin portraits of once towering figures humbled by age - last year a matriarch in Three Tall ...