"King Lear" is regarded as Shakespeare's pinnacle achievement in tragedy, ... 'King Lear' by Shakespeare's Globe of London is at the Broad Stage in a compact, frolicsome staging that lacks heft.

Marcell, a Shakespearean best known for an American sitcom, has the title role in the Globe production now touring the U.S. Add a Show Listing: Sign-up: News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

Audiences know the tale only too well: an aging patriarch ready to pass on his legacy doles out property according to his favorites, and suddenly all his children snuggle up, spouting professions o… ...

The actors wear baggy trousers, work boots, homespun dresses. They wander onto the Moore Theatre stage in good humor, singing and stomping out tunes. They stroll up the aisles, warmly ...

"Filial ingratitude!” rages King Lear in the midst of a tempest, which, though violent, fails to match the intensity of the former monarch’s fury toward his daughters. Lear’s aged naiveté ...

Robert Foxworth plays King Lear and Bruce Turk the Fool in Shakespeare's tragedy, directed by Festival Artistic Director Adrian Noble. The crowns are swapped in Alan Bennett's The Madness of ...

For the production of “King Lear” that comes to Boston this week from Shakespeare’s Globe theater, intimacy and imagination are prized over spectacle.

The production by Shakespeare’s Globe, presented by ArtsEmerson at the Paramount Center Mainstage, seldom touches the depths of darkness and dread that “King Lear’’ should plumb.