At two hours with no intermission, this stunning Branagh-helmed and -starring production is, in the best possible way, “King Lear’s” greatest hits.

Kenneth Branagh’s “King Lear,” which opened Thursday night at the Shed, is a tragedy that doesn’t seem to know why it’s so tragic. The production’s fleet and feathery interpretation of ...

Kenneth Branagh’s ‘King Lear,’ now transferred from London ... chooses the literal over the cosmic. When he carries in his dead youngest daughter, Cordelia (Jessica Revell, who doubles as ...

Eventually, Lear is also reunited with his only honest daughter, the formerly disowned Cordelia, though they’re quickly imprisoned and condemned to death by Edmund. But here’s Lear: We two ...

Personal Perspective: As a young girl, I became obsessed with Shakespeare's King Lear. Now I realize it taught me the truths of transformative madness and pernicious sanity.

Gustav Pope, The Three Daughters of King Lear, ca. 1875–76, Oil on canvas, Museo de Arte de Ponce ... Lear’s confusion over Cordelia’s intransigent and perhaps imprudent attachment to natural justice ...

Cordelia: So the point of this all is to have people who have actually played King Lear talk about what it’s like to play King Lear. There’s one big question I want to ask you all first . . .

Two of those plays are King Lear. The earlier one, in London in 2016, had nothing in common with this one except the lead actress, who won acclaim for the thunder she brought to the role. Although I ...

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 ...