An Iranian director is breathing new life into William Shakespeare's "King Lear" with a bold staging in Tehran infused with ...

Naive and prideful, Lear disowns Cordelia, his youngest daughter ... Tragedies such as "King Lear" are "universal and resonate with people around the world -- that's why Shakespeare remains ...

As he approaches his 89th birthday, Richard Wilson plays King Lear for the first time in his life. Richard will be the oldest-ever British actor to take on the role. This is Shakespeare's powerful ...

The grim truth is that virtue sometimes fails, and many spectators have found King Lear deeply disillusioning. Lear and Edgar both endure terrible suffering in the course of their awakenings. The ...

So it was with Kim Krumm Sorenson’s stunning silks for Lear, Cordelia and Regan. In the Resident Ensemble Players’ stirring production of King Lear, director Jackson Gay strips the ...

Cordelia (Jessica Revell), refuses. Lear casts her off with nothing to her name. But the king, accompanied by his jester (also Revell) and a loyal disciple in disguise (Eleanor de Rohan), is ...

Johan Persson, Courtesy The Shed Kenneth Branagh during rehearsals of King Lear with Hughie O’Donnell (who plays Cornwall), Jessica Revell (Cordelia/The Fool), and Ayla Wheatley (Attendant).