Theater & Dance This ‘King Lear’ might be the best our theater critic has ever seen. Director Simon Godwin’s sleek production, with a consummate Patrick Page as the vain and foolish king, is ...

Coriolanus himself is a monster, Shammas says: “There should be absolutely no sympathy for him.” ...

Ohio Shakespeare Festival's 2025-2026 season opens with "The Tempest" at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, featuring regendered ...

WASHINGTON - They wanted to create a "King Lear" that percolated like a thriller. And that's the strong brew audiences are getting - in what has turned out to be one of the biggest hits in the ...

On Monday, March 10, I shoved my battered copy of Stephen Orgel’s edition of Lear into my pocket and took the subway one stop north from my office at 116th St. to our newer Manhattanville campus ...

Meet Amanda Lear. She’s a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma swathed in a designer ensemble and ready for her close ...

“King Lear” ends with almost all the characters dying, but because this is a play – a fiction, a fantasy – they get to ask ...

King Lear feels so resonant to our time—to any time, really—and I'm wondering how you feel about that idea of the multi-generational aspect of the play and its timelessness.

King Lear typically runs to about three hours, but this wonderful production, first staged in London last year—directed by Rob Ashford, Branagh and Lucy Skilbeck—comes in at around two, with ...

Dennis Raveneau portrays King Lear and Emily Ernst is the Fool in Fair Assembly's upcoming production of Shakespeare's familial tragedy.(Mac Welch) If you’re old enough to play King Lear, the ...

“King Lear” is about lots of things—power, family, helplessness. It is also about language, both the slippery tricks of lies and the sometime solace of truth.

King Lear runs Thursdays through Sundays, at 8 PM, in Samuell Grand Park, through October 15. Tickets are always available at the gate, as well as through the link below.