An Iranian director is breathing new life into William Shakespeare's "King Lear" with a bold ... Naive and prideful, Lear disowns Cordelia, his youngest daughter, who refuses to join the charade.

In Iran, artists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and playwrights must walk a tightrope to avoid censorship of content the authorities deem inappropriate. But despite political tensions between ...

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 ...

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?

replaced on stage by a revised version by Nahum Tate titled The History of King Lear. Tate, an Anglo-Irish poet and lyricist, turned the tragedy into a comedy. Not only does Cordelia not die in ...

The steady rain that fell during most of Hell Week — the last week before opening night when most of the technical elements come together on stage for the first time — is almost fitting.

Bell Shakespeare’s King Lear, directed by Peter Evans ... When his youngest daughter, Cordelia (Melissa Kahraman), refuses to stroke her father’s ego, the king misconstrues her honesty ...

Only Cordelia speaks from the aisles, with no need for pretense or showmanship. Meanwhile, Lear rejects his nobleman Kent (Paul Pryce) for accusing the two daughters of conspiring against the King ...

On Kiss Me, Kate at Studio 54, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus at the Booth Theatre, and King Lear at the ... small and frail to carry Cordelia’s body at the end and possibly too weak to carry a ...

Paul Gross, at 64, is not too young to be playing King Lear. Why ... The actor playing Lear’s daughter Cordelia, Tara Sky, confesses: “I didn’t actually know who he was before meeting ...