Painting of Olivier as Lear By Chuck Rose at strugglingtopaint.blogspot.com “Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.” (Edgar) At the end of King ...

The king is dead. Long live the king. This is the Year of Lear. It’s the biggest surprise of the 2014 theatre calendar that Shakespeare’s play about a maddened monarch is popping up all over ...

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

The Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company (Tom Oppenheim, Artistic Director) has announced a limited engagement of William Shakespeare's King Lear. Under the direction of Nike Doukas, the ...

For theater nerds, it’s unclear which is the bigger news: that St. Louis Shakespeare Festival is returning to Forest Park, or that the inimitable André De Shields is in the starring role of King Lear.

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 ...