Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Losing your Lear eleven days out would be a death sentence for most productions, ...

Branagh not only distils the play to an intermissionless two hours, but also sets it in a neolithic period of sticks, stones, and spears, where Lear’s tale of psychic and political dispossession gains ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Marcus Gardley, Playwright: "Translating King Lear was a dream project. Being able ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Kenneth Branagh’s production of the Shakespeare classic speeds through the material and can’t quite figure out its tone. By Maya Phillips Kenneth ...

Every so often in the career of a theater critic, a production becomes a crime scene and the critic is thrust into the role of medical examiner to determine how the victim died. The bloody mess at the ...

In his lecture entitled “Emeritus Rex: Shakespeare’s King Lear, a Cautionary Tale for Retirees,” the acclaimed emeritus theater professor, Paul Whitworth, invites attendees into the world of ...

Having seen Rupert Goold set The Tempest in an Arctic wasteland and Macbeth in Soviet Russia, it comes as little surprise to see King Lear clad in a floral dress twirling a parasol. While I’d read ...