The play is based on the famed novel by French writer Prosper Mérimée, adapted for the stage by Mohamed Ali Ibrahim, and ...

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 ...

During Sunday’s press conference, veteran actor Yehia El-Fakharany spoke about the upcoming performance of Shakespeare’s King ...

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 ...

Curtain Call executive director Lou Ursone was out of town at a theater convention when he got a devastating call that a set ...

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“King Lear,” many have said, is too grand for the stage. The biggest complaints, though, are stirred by the almost sadistic cruelty that pervades the text: It’s not an easy play to stomach.

Optimist Theatre’s just-opened production of “King Lear” – ninth and worst of its annual offerings of free Shakespeare – triggered an emotion I’ve never experienced, in watching ...

‘King Lear’: TV Review. Running under two hours, Amazon's version of William Shakespeare's 'King Lear' is oddly thin and brisk, but you can't go wrong watching Anthony Hopkins as Lear.

Shakespeare's "King Lear," so grand in its scope, so dark in its vision, is not a play about a single man. But the new Broadway production tends to make you forget this. Playing the maddened and ...

LEARWIFE By J. R. Thorp. Perhaps you know the story of “King Lear.” The old king, on the verge of madness, decides to split his kingdom among his three daughters, giving the largest share to ...

‘King Lear’: Theater Review. Two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson returns to the stage after a quarter-century in Shakespeare's most demanding role, 'King Lear,' at an age when the monarch ...