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

The magic of Art Renzei, Ukraine’s ‘King Lear,’ celebrating Henry Mancini and the best of L.A. culture this week. By Jessica Gelt, Ashley Lee, Charles McNulty and Mark Swed.

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 ...

On October 26, The Shed will open a 50-performances-only production of King Lear starring and co-directed by Kenneth Branagh—he helms the play with Rob Ashford and Lucy Skilbeck—and featuring ...

An Iranian director is breathing new life into William Shakespeare's "King Lear" with a bold staging in Tehran infused with rock music and a dazzling light show to attract younger audiences. But ...

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 ...

In theory, King Lear ’s story is straightforward. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, after the Chernobyl catastrophe wipes out everything, the film follows William Shakespeare Junior the Fifth (Peter ...

Jul. 8—Today "King Lear" performance: An aging King Lear decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters. His plotting comes to catastrophe and sees him cast from his own kingdom.

(CNN) — A David Hockney painting bought by famed US screenwriter and producer Norman Lear for $78,000 is expected to fetch up to $35 million at auction. “A Lawn Being Sprinkled” is going ...

“King Lear” performance: An aging King Lear decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters. ... NoBo Art Center, 4929 Broadway, #E, Boulder; $30; artofmodeling.org. ...