In the Resident Ensemble Players’ stirring production of King Lear ... Cordelia in his arms, the transformation is total and heart-wrenching: a once-mighty sovereign reduced to a father mourning ...

The Saturday Symposium and Resident Ensemble Players are partnering together for King Lear. Join us for the day on April 19 and enjoy fascinating discussions, followed by a matinee performance of this ...

Opinion: Dr. Miranda Fay Thomas explores the history behind - and relevance of - William Shakespeare's masterpiece King Lear ... ending where Lear gets his kingdom back, and Cordelia and Edgar ...

None of this has stopped King Lear remaining among the most quotable ... The always insufferable Cordelia – no blame attaches to an intelligent turn from Emma Dargan-Reid – does not and ...

If Godard’s filmography was placed on a spectrum from linear to discombobulated, King Lear (1987), his postmodern interpretation of Shakespeare’s work, would fall somewhere near the middle. In theory, ...

Physical media collectors, take note. The Criterion Collection has announced six new Blu-ray releases coming in February 2025, including titles from some of today’s most beloved auteurs and one ...

At two hours with no intermission, this stunning Branagh-helmed and -starring production is, in the best possible way, “King Lear ... and then Lear cradling a dead Cordelia at the end ...

Cordelia (Jessica Revell), refuses. Lear casts her off with nothing to her name. But the king, accompanied by his jester (also Revell) and a loyal disciple in disguise (Eleanor de Rohan), is ...

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?

Johan Persson, Courtesy The Shed Kenneth Branagh during rehearsals of King Lear with Hughie O’Donnell (who plays Cornwall), Jessica Revell (Cordelia/The Fool), and Ayla Wheatley (Attendant).

Priam, the old king ... Lear refuses to cede control. Finally, as he sinks into confusion, he discovers humility and compassion – too late. Lear is reunited in prison with his loyal daughter ...