His suffering is tangible ... We have seen the best of our time.” That is King Lear. But Branagh, Ashford, and Skilbeck offer no consistent access to the play’s magnificent existential ...

Tragedies such as "King Lear" are "universal and resonate with ... "In one scene, Lear calls on those in power to expose themselves to the suffering of the poor in order to build a more just ...

In the Resident Ensemble Players’ stirring production of King Lear, director Jackson Gay strips ... that makes his betrayal and eventual suffering all the more poignant. His physical blinding ...

“King Lear” is about lots of things—power ... The storm’s indifference to Lear’s suffering is scary. But it’s the human lies, his daughters’ wicked self-interest, that hurt.

When this Lear dashes out into the storm on the blasted heath, he tries to evoke the suffering of the region’s vast homeless population. But that doesn’t track because a king always chooses ...

One of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies, King Lear, follows the eponymous king as he decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters based on their professions of love for him.

The week that Mahmoud Khalil became a political prisoner of the Trump regime, I was teaching Shakespeare’s King Lear. On Saturday, March 8, as his wife watched, anonymous federal agents abducted ...

If there’s an actor in King Lear who’s attempting to go deep as ... He’s feeling what he’s saying and what’s said to him. His suffering is tangible. When, after hearing the lie that ...

The performance of King Lear is infused with rock music and a dazzling light ... "In one scene, Lear calls on those in power to expose themselves to the suffering of the poor in order to build a more ...