Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Acclaimed actor Kenneth Branagh steps into the formidable shoes of William ...

The veteran actor directs and plays the title role in a brisk and curiously weightless London production. By Matt Wolf The critic Matt Wolf saw “King Lear” in London “Blow, winds, and crack your ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Alexander Cohen, BroadwayWorld: Branagh’s vision is undeniably there, but ...

The role of King Lear has become a virtual rite of passage for actors of a certain distinction and vintage. Over the past 20 years, I’ve seen Shakespeare’s ravaged monarch tackled by Christopher ...

I have loved watching Kenneth Branagh pick his way through Shakespeare on stage, from his thrilling Henry V at the RSC at the age of 23, through a Romeo and two goes at Hamlet, to a gripping Macbeth ...

The Shed isn’t a Broadway theater, but in the relatively short time the venue has been in operation, it’s hosted some of New York City’s starriest stage endeavors—from Stephen Sondheim’s final musical ...

Given Kenneth Branagh’s virtually unmatched history as an actor and director of Shakespeare’s plays, on stage and film, it is hard not to feel disappointment bordering on dismay at his production of ...

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 ...

For more than 400 years the works of William Shakespeare have inspired and entertained us. The movie industry has looked to those same works to produce some of the best adaptations of his work almost ...

Kenneth Branagh is a master of the Shakespearean stage but things haven’t always gone swimmingly for the Oscar-winning star of the Royal Shakespeare Company's (RSC) upcoming version of The Tempest.

The story of Jesus, told through the eyes of Charles Dickens, that nobody asked for. By Alissa Wilkinson Kenneth Branagh’s production of the Shakespeare classic speeds through the material and can’t ...