This season, Broadway welcomes a new 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.

The History of King Lear A long-reviled revision of Shakespeare's tragedy proves fascinating as revived by the Hidden Room Theatre Reviewed by Robert Faires, Fri., Nov. 27, 2015 ...

Lear, the “poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man” on the heath, embodies the bleakest vision of human nature in the history of the theater -- the once-powerful king has been reduced to ...

King Lear is among the most complex and contradictory of Shakespeare’s works. While the play has no single character with the intellectual or sensual appeal of a Hamlet, Falstaff, Cleopatra ...

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Tony Award winner Bill Irwin, the famed American clown, discusses the challenge and joy of playing King Lear 's Fool, the foul-weather friend of Shakespeare's famous broken monarch, now at the ...

And of course, centrally and captivatingly, Page’s Lear allows you to see the king’s decline, from arrogant entitlement to desolate madness, in an almost clinical, step-by-step disintegration.

In 1681, Nahum Tate took "unpolisht jewel" Shakespeare's King Lear, and modified it for Restoration tastes. The romantic result replaced its original for 157 years. Now rarely-seen, Tate’s ...

Glenda Jackson returns to Broadway to tackle one of the greatest of classical theater roles in a gender-blind production of 'King Lear' that also features Ruth Wilson, Jayne Houdyshell, Elizabeth ...

They wanted to create a “King Lear” that percolated like a thriller. And that’s the strong brew audiences are getting — in what has turned out to be one of the biggest hits in the history ...

'King Lear' Where: The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturdays, 2 and 7 p.m ...

King Lear is making its triumphant return to Broadway, starring Glenda Jackson in a gender-swapped version of the title role. As we gear up for this revival, let's take a look back on some notable ...