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Yehia El-Fakharany is re-presenting King Lear play at the National Theatre This information is correct at the time of going ...
Curtain Call executive director Lou Ursone was out of town at a theater convention when he got a devastating call that a set ...
During Sunday’s press conference, veteran actor Yehia El-Fakharany spoke about the upcoming performance of Shakespeare’s King ...
EXCLUSIVE: Tony Award-nominated actor John Douglas Thompson has signed with Paradigm for representation. In television, ...
The Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festivals continues its new format of alternate performances of two shows as other outdoor ...
The Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner was last seen on the big screen in 2023’s “A Haunting in Venice,” which he also ...
Ohio Shakespeare Festival's 2025-2026 season opens with "The Tempest" at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, featuring regendered ...
“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.
Meet Amanda Lear. She’s a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma swathed in a designer ensemble and ready for her close ...
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 ...
In this second of two episodes, John looks at the loyal but provocative character of the Fool. He also discovers that, since the 17th century, critics including Samuel Johnson have struggled with the ...