Glenda Jackson, just coming off her run in Three Tall Women on Broadway, has already set the date of her return. Jackson will appear as the title character in King Lear in the play's Broadway run next ...

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 ...

Kenneth Branagh plays the title role in a new production of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, set in the barbarous landscape of Ancient Britain. Featuring a cast of rising stars from the Royal Academy ...

Al Pacino and Jessica Chastain will star in Lear Rex, a new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear. Per Deadline, Pacino will play the titular character in the forthcoming Lear Rex, while ...

Role marks a major return for the actor after falling off the stage in 2024 and is a coup for the forward-thinking theatre Ian McKellen is to play King Lear in his first major theatrical role since ...

Since its opening in May 1951, and across the 75 years of its existence, Pitlochry Festival Theatre has staged a huge number of plays. Some of ...

It is a common reflex to reach for Aristotle’s Poetics to determine what a good tragedy should be. Aristotle says there are good reasons to enjoy a good tragedy, especially if its ergon or telos (its ...

Shakespeare’s tragedy reflects modern Korea’s unease with old age, dignity and the growing burden of care across generations.

The solid “King Lear” at Folger Theatre is so modestly mounted, it could fit in the pockets of other recent productions of Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy. Eight actors play all of the roles in the ...