Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In the Resident Ensemble Players’ stirring production of King Lear, ...

He was a fixture of postwar Japanese cinema and starred in films by Akira Kurosawa and other directors of that era.

For King Lear, perhaps Shakespeare’s bleakest tragedy, Denver Center Theatre Company artistic director Kent Thompson has the characters argue, fight, rage, torment each other and grieve on an almost ...

Japanese stage and movie actor Tatsuya Nakadai, who starred in a string of Akira Kurosawa films, including the lead in "Ran", ...

Tatsuya Nakadai, a Japanese film legend known for his work in "The Human Condition" trilogy, "Harakiri" and other iconic ...

Tatsuya Nakadai, one of the titans of post-war Japanese cinema and a defining screen presence for directors like Akira ...

When President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he would not seek reelection after all, one of my first thoughts went to a Russian-born Jewish playwright who revolutionized Yiddish theater in turn of ...

After their success of 2024's "Twelfth Night," South Stream Productions is back for their newest Shakespeare celebration, the famously fierce "King Lear." South Stream continues with its ...

Tatsuya Nakadai, one of Japan's most celebrated actors who was a frequent collaborator of Akira Kurosawa and Masaki Kobayashi ...

It is a common reflex to reach for Aristotle’s Poetics to determine what a good tragedy should be. Aristotle says there are good reasons to enjoy a good tragedy, especially if its ergon or telos (its ...

Tatsuya Nakadai, one of Japan’s most celebrated actors who led Masaki Kobayashi's "Harakiri" and starred in Akira Kurosawa's ...