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 ...

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 ...

When the apocalypse comes, it will not arrive on the heels of a dreadful, cataclysmic clap of thunder. The earth will revolt in millimeter increments until we are frogs content to sit in a pot of ...

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 ...

One of the greatest characters in English literature is that of King Lear, the monarch of ancient Britain who divides up his kingdom among his daughters only to learn harsh lessons about family, ...

“Cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second.” It’s hard not to watch any of Jean-Luc Godard’s films without thinking of that famed quote. Throughout his prolific career, the director constantly tested the ...

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 Academy ...