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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...