“Station Eleven,” whose first three episodes (of 10) premiered Thursday on HBO Max, is a post-post-apocalypse tale, set largely two decades into the future — 2040 by the series’ timeline ...

As a child, the sudden death of her mentor mid-performance of King Lear coincides with the spread of an unprecedented flu that spreads so quickly that few are left in its wake.

At the beginning of HBO Max’s Station Eleven, Jeevan Chaudhary (Himesh Patel) attends a performance of King Lear in which the lead actor suddenly drops dead during the show. In the chaos that ...

It opens with that star, fading actor Arthur Leander, dying of a heart attack onstage during a performance of King Lear the night the outbreak hits. It's one death overshadowed by millions in the ...

Emily St. John Mandel’s “Station Eleven” had been sitting in the queue of books I need to read all fall, pushed down the list by breaking news, comfort reading cravings and my reluctance to ...

Review: ‘King Lear,’ Faster and Less Furious Kenneth Branagh’s production of the Shakespeare classic speeds through the material and can’t quite figure out its tone.

The new HBO Max series 'Station Eleven' premieres Dec. 16. It stars Mackenzie Davis and is based on a book by Emily St. John Mandel.

Mandel’s decision to open with “King Lear” is appropriate, since much of the rest of the novel explores what the raging king describes as “unaccommodated man” — humanity stripped of ...

The first death we see in Station Eleven is not from the flu: Movie star Arthur Leander (Gael García Bernal) is playing the titular role in a stage production of King Lear.

It opens with that star, fading actor Arthur Leander, dying of a heart attack onstage during a performance of King Lear the night the outbreak hits. It's one death overshadowed by millions in the ...