Matthew Dunster’s disruptive reinvention of the tragedy merges two roles for its star and at times enters Game of Thrones territory ...

American Theatre of Actors will present what is considered by some to be Shaksepeare's masterpiece: King Lear. Performances run August 14 - 25 ( 7:00 PM (Wednesday through Saturday), 3:00 PM (Sunday) ...

A brilliant Lear is at the heart of a production that struggles to give his daughters sufficient dramatic weight. David Threlfall delivers a compelling portrait of Shakespeare’s ageing monarch in this ...

In a year of notable Lears – including Maureen Beattie’s superb, feminised monarch in Pitlochry and Ian McDiarmid’s memorable ...

In a notable instance of one behemoth assessing another, the director Peter Brook once called King Lear “a mountain whose summit has never been reached, the way up strewn with the shattered bodies of ...

King LearRoyal Exchange Manchester★★★☆☆KING LEAR is the classic autocrat on the cusp of losing his grip on power and of his ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Kenneth Branagh and Jessica Revell as Lear and Cordelia. Photo: Marc J. Franklin/Courtesy The Shed ...