Lear’s kingdom, as designed by Anthony Ward, is a dark and cheerless Eastern European sort of place, with mottled blue walls and elemental panels, scudding clouds, a vast council chamber table, ...

While Manhattan theatergoers took what cold comfort they could from warmed-over operettas and a blurry reprint of The Front Page, London had Laurence Olivier’s majestic production of King Lear. By ...

Shakespeare BASH’d returns with an all-star production of The Tragedy of King Lear, by William Shakespeare, featuring Tony and Olivier nominee Scott Wentworth in the title role. This mythic tale ...

For King Lear, perhaps Shakespeare’s bleakest tragedy, Denver Center Theatre Company artistic director Kent Thompson has the characters argue, fight, rage, torment each other and grieve on an almost ...

The world, as Shakespeare describes it in "King Lear," is a "great stage of fools" -- and no one is a bigger fool than prideful Lear himself. The version of this plaintive moan of a tragedy at Folger ...

Following a successful world premiere at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas and a sold-out four-performance run in ...

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 ...

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 Academy ...

King Lear is a video production of William Shakespeare's 1606 play of the same name, directed by Michael Elliott. It was broadcast in 1983 in the UK and in 1984 in the US. Elliott set his Lear in an ...