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 ...

Opinion: Dr. Miranda Fay Thomas explores the history behind - and relevance of - William Shakespeare's masterpiece King Lear, currently playing at Dublin's Gate Theatre.. Shakespeare's King Lear ...

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.

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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 ...

And in “King Lear”, Shakespeare piles them high. “That’s but a trifle here,” a character says of another’s demise during the final die-in.

My favorite thing about King Lear, ... Our 160-year history of sounding the alarm on presidential overreach and the persecution of dissent has prepared us for this moment.

Kenneth Branagh’s ‘King Lear,’ now transferred from London to the Shed, is a fleet two hours, smooth and facile.