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Two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson returns to the stage after a quarter-century in Shakespeare's most demanding role, 'King Lear,' at an age when the monarch wouldn’t be the only one thinking ...

Glenda Jackson as King Lear Is the Mad King For Our Age "Lear is about an old man who has a serious temper tantrum because no one had ever said no to him." By Maureen Dowd Published: Mar 21, 2019.

Returning to the stage after 25 years away, Glenda Jackson makes an extraordinary Lear: an elderly woman standing in for an old king. Her performance centers on a contradiction, her slight frame ...

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 ...

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.

A more compelling inspiration for Gold was the star of his production, the inimitable Glenda Jackson, who plays the male role of King Lear. Jackson, an 82-year-old force of nature, made her return ...

Glenda Jackson, fresh off her Tony-winning run in Three Tall Women, will return to Broadway next year in a new production of William Shakespeare’s King Lear. And yes, she'll play Lear.

NEW YORK — “Reason not the need!” King Lear declares. It is the eternally formidable Glenda Jackson who speaks these words in a scenery-shaking growl in the new Broadway mounting of one of ...

How Glenda Jackson courted Shakespeare, British Parliament ... “King Lear” begins previews Feb. 28. For Jackson, it’s a remarkable third act in a remarkable career.

GLENDA JACKSON, ACTRESS, “KING LEAR”: Well, it is and it isn’t. I mean, I’m used to eight shows a week. I mean, that was the work toll, that it was practiced in England when I began, and ...