The truly stunning element in Oakland Theater Project's "King Lear"--for some, Shakespeare's most heart-wrenching play--is ...

Many people may have the image of Shakespeare's 'King Lear' as a 'tragedy of an old king who falls into madness after being ...

Shakespeare's "King Lear" is a tragedy that begins with an aging king dividing his kingdom among his three daughters.However, ...

In this Shakespeare tragedy, King Lear (Patrick Page) is dividing his land among his daughters, Regan (Stephanie Jean Lane), Goneril (Rosa Gilmore), and Cordelia. However, he becomes displeased with ...

Oakland Theater Project and New Performance Traditions' production has plenty of creative directorial flourishes, some more ...

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 ...

What would you do if you had to divide all your possessions between your children, but punished the one who refused to ...

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 ...

This Western flick, the only one Roy Scheider ever worked on, cast a sci-fi film and TV icon as a reimagined version of a ...

Patrick Page in King Lear — Photo: DJ Corey READ THIS REVIEW IN THE MAGAZINE Given the dark nights of COVID, it’s hard not to celebrate the STC’s march back to normalcy with a thrice-extended run of ...

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) ...

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 ...