Booking is now open for MADC's 2025 Shakespeare at San Anton Gardens, continuing its decades-long tradition of staging an open-air production each summer, while also marking a milestone moment for ...

Fakharany is set to star in a stage production of William Shakespeare’s “King Lear” for the third time in his career. He is ...

In this second of two episodes, John looks at the loyal but provocative character of the Fool. He also discovers that, since the 17th century, critics including Samuel Johnson have struggled with the ...

Sir Richard Eyre, directed an award-winning production of King Lear, starring Ian Holm, at the National Theatre in 1997 and another production for BBC television, with Anthony Hopkins in the lead role ...

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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 story centers around King Lear, an aging monarch who decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters—Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia—based on their expressions of love for him. To test their ...

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 ...

ADVERTISEMENT King Lear typically runs to about three hours ... Jessica Revell plays both Fool and Cordelia—and only the program revealing that will make you notice, so different does Revell ...

Kenneth Branagh and Jessica Revell as Lear and Cordelia. Photo ... with the rest of their father’s court to witness the old king divesting his power and dividing up his kingdom?

“King Lear” features two storylines ... to the daughter who does the finest job stroking his ego. Lear expects Cordelia, his favorite, to outshine her sisters. But she refuses to play along ...