The Alban Arts Center is presenting the work of William Shakespeare with the tragedy of King Lear.

Running under two hours, Amazon's version of William Shakespeare's 'King Lear' is oddly thin and brisk, but you can't go wrong watching Anthony Hopkins as Lear. By Daniel Fienberg It’s been over 20 ...

This season's new Broadway production of William Shakespeare's King Lear, starring two-time Academy Award winner, two-time Emmy Award winner, and 2018 Tony Award winner Glenda Jackson and directed by ...

Home in Seattle at ReAct Theatre (Jun 5 – Jun 14, 2026). Baker Theater Workshop Presents Two Plays About Power, Family, and ...

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 ...

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Two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson returns to the stage after a quarter-century in Shakespeare's most demanding role, 'King Lear,' at an age when the monarch wouldn’t be the only one thinking of ...

Kenneth Branagh and Jessica Revell as Lear and Cordelia. Photo: Marc J. Franklin/Courtesy The Shed Kenneth Branagh and Jessica Revell as Lear and Cordelia. Photo: Marc J. Franklin/Courtesy The Shed ...

King Lear Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Emily Watson, Emma Thompson, Florence Pugh, Jim Broadbent, Andrew Scott Director: Richard Eyre The Pitch: In the fictional present, the 80-year-old King Lear (Hopkins) ...

SECOND ARTICLE : PLOT AND PERSONAGES. SHAKESPEARE was forty-one years old when he wrote King Lear. Just at the time of life when a well-constituted, healthy man has attained the maturity of his ...