Glenda Jackson, just coming off her run in Three Tall Women on Broadway, has already set the date of her return. Jackson will appear as the title character in King Lear in the play's Broadway run next ...

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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 ...

While bringing a modern-dress aesthetic to Shakespeare’s play, Farber’s production sets great store by a poetic minimalism that foregrounds the expressive powers of her outstanding cast. On a stage ...

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 ...

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, England — The stage set was haunting in its stark simplicity. Panels of jagged crossbeams evoked skeletal ruins. Lengths of white fabric fluttered like shrouds. For almost any ...

As Hurricane Milton barrelled toward Florida last month, I taught a three-hour Zoom class and tried not to refresh my phone for updates. I grew up in Florida, and my parents, along with my sister and ...

Brian Blessed has withdrawn from King Lear at Holy Trinity Church in Guildford due to ill health. Doctors have advised the 78-year-old actor to leave the production, as his heart condition is "more ...

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