The first thing you notice about Hudson Valley Shakespeare's new Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center isn't the building itself, ...
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Director Finn den Hertog discusses a new King Lear at Pitlochry Festival Theatre which places dementia, family and feminine ...
If Shakespeare’s tragedies are mountains to be climbed by intrepid theaters, “King Lear” is Mount Everest: cold, forbidding, and dangerous. It’s a complex, bleak, and ultimately rich play. The title ...
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the ...
SECOND ARTICLE : PLOT AND PERSONAGES. SHAKESPEARE was forty-one years old when he wrote King Lear. Just at the time of life when a well-constituted, healthy man has attained the maturity of his ...
Lear is Not Okay, which played at London’s Almeida Theatre this month, was something of a meta performance. The show tells the story of a youth theatre company as they rehearse a new play that ...
For King Lear, perhaps Shakespeare’s bleakest tragedy, Denver Center Theatre Company artistic director Kent Thompson has the characters argue, fight, rage, torment each other and grieve on an almost ...
Having seen Rupert Goold set The Tempest in an Arctic wasteland and Macbeth in Soviet Russia, it comes as little surprise to see King Lear clad in a floral dress twirling a parasol. While I’d read ...