An Iranian director is breathing new life into William Shakespeare's "King Lear" with a bold staging in Tehran infused with rock music and a dazzling light show to attract younger audiences.In Iran, ...

The Saturday Symposium and Resident Ensemble Players are partnering together for King Lear. Join us for the day on April 19 and enjoy fascinating discussions, followed by a matinee performance of this ...

Reading King Lear at Columbia in the Wake of Mahmoud Khalil’s Kidnapping Trump’s war on my colleagues and students helped me understand the play’s political caution, which is not just about ...

The style of King Lear makes the film difficult to watch, yet impossible to look away from. It’s engaging through its alienating quality, and rewards revisiting, if not only to make better sense of ...

At Roadshow's 2022 stop in Shelburne, VT, Devon Eastland appraised a 1655 Shakespeare "King Lear" 3rd quarto edition. Find out what the guest did with the book in Extraordinary Finds 3!

Review: Kenneth Branagh’s ‘King Lear’ Howls Into A Stormy, Rushed Muddle The great Kenneth Branagh leads and co-directs a decidedly not-great production at the Shed.

‘King Lear’ Review: Kenneth Branagh’s Empty Shakespeare Epic The British actor stars in and co-directs this brisk, emotionally vacuous production of the towering drama at the Shed.

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.

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

Reading “King Lear” During Hurricane Season Above my desk, I keep a Post-it note with a quote from the play: “The worst is not so long as we can say ‘This is the worst.’ ” ...

“We chose King Lear two years ago for Dennis Raveneau,” says Emily Ernst, artistic director of the Dallas troupe Fair Assembly, who’s co-directing the ...

Tragic reckoning and solace King Lear stands as a colossus of a play in Shakespeare’s achievements, among the grandest efforts of his imagination.