| 单词 | King Lear |
| 例句 | “Do you remember that bit in King Lear?' said the Savage at last. “ Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Whisk, the cathedrals; whisk, whisk, King Lear and the Thoughts of Pascal. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z King Lear loses his mind with what we, in modern times, would call Alzheimer’s. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z In the spring we studied King Lear and Hamlet. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z But there were also some extremely bad things: It started with white-hot takes about how Shakespeare wrote “King Lear” under quarantine. Let’s Stigmatize the Internet 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Media reports this week said the allegation dated from Rush’s starring role in the leading Australian company’s staging of William Shakespeare’s King Lear two years ago. Geoffrey Rush quits industry post over 'inappropriate behaviour' claim 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z The almost blithe beginning of this “King Lear,” the first version to be staged at this theater since 1973, teasingly matches the holiday mood that theatergoers bring to Shakespeare in the Park. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z In 2008 he returned to the Everyman to play the lead in King Lear, a role he had always wanted to play. Pete Postlethwaite dies 2011-01-03T11:25:47Z He’s written two previous memoirs, one that tracks him to Moscow to direct “The Crucible” and another about the challenges of “King Lear.” Brian Cox Takes Stock of His Eventful Life on Stage and Screen 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z "By linking it with King Lear, in sequence, with the same leading actor, and director, we assert that." Sir Antony Sher to play Lear for RSC 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z “It’s a black female ‘King Lear,’ ” says White, who sees in the play Baldwin’s efforts to deal starkly with struggles within the black community. Perspective | A theater highlight for D.C.: James Baldwin’s rarely seen ‘Amen Corner’ 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Sir Derek Jacobi will play the lead role in the Donmar Warehouse production of King Lear when it is streamed live into over 300 cinemas around the world. Sir Derek Jacobi's King Lear to go live at 300 world cinemas 2010-07-29T18:31:00Z Shaken by the prospect of a Trump presidency, I consoled myself with the thought that at least I had “King Lear” to retreat into. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Cinema screenings are to begin in February with “King Lear.” Stratford Festival to Offer Shakespeare in Movie Theaters and on TV 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z The decline, both physical and mental, chronicled in “King Lear” exists a league apart, and few productions of this play knock at the door of the psychic abyss that the play itself inhabits. Minds in Meltdown, and a Risk-Taking Director Back on Form 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z As they grow older, they spend their lives performing “King Lear” over and over. | 'Storm Still': ?King Lear? Inspires a Riff on the Endurance of Time 2011-02-27T23:00:47Z This work from Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and “King Lear” period doesn’t have the hurtling tension of those tragedies or the expansive spirit of the romances to come, and Richmond’s clear vision may simplify too much. Review | ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ amps up the glamour at Folger 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z In Godard’s “King Lear,” from 1987, he has a character describe editing as “handling physically, in both hands, the future, the present, and the past.” Godard’s Revolutionary 3-D Film 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z But with “King Lear,” to borrow a great line from the play, “Ripeness is all.” A ‘King Lear’ that hasn’t fully flowered, at Seattle Shakes 2014-05-01T16:58:52Z “King Lear,” the second of the two productions, opens on July 22 and runs through Aug. 17. ArtsBeat: Shakespeare in the Park Lineup: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ and ‘King Lear’ 2014-02-13T19:00:42Z The play, which takes its title from a persistent stage direction in “King Lear” and is directed by Portia Krieger, is the inaugural production of the new collective Brooklyn Yard. Review: ‘Storm, Still,’ a Riff on ‘King Lear’ in a Brooklyn Backyard 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z King Lear is deconstructed as a one-man tour-de-force by Contemporary Legend Theatre from Taipei. Eastern flavour for Edinburgh Festival 2011-03-23T11:30:07Z It's not exactly playing King Lear, is it? TV review: Grandma's House, Inn Mates and Gears And Tears 2010-08-10T06:30:00Z "King Lear" is regarded as Shakespeare's pinnacle achievement in tragedy, a masterpiece of vast scope and overwhelming intensity. Globe's compact 'King Lear,' at the Broad, lacks needed heft 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Fans of “Slings & Arrows” — the best-ever small-screen depiction of stage shenanigans — will get a kick from seeing Stephen Ouimette, who portrayed the ghost of a director in that series, as the Fool in “King Lear.” A Night at the Theater From Your Couch? No Apologies Needed. 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z “The challenge of trying to understand the language is part of the experience you want,” said Marcus Gardley, who is translating “King Lear.” Translating Shakespeare? 36 Playwrights Taketh the Big Risk 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The next milestone for me was Robert Stephens's King Lear. Shakespeare and me: Thea Sharrock 2012-06-30T23:05:28Z Otherwise, you’ll just give new meaning to King Lear’s most famous line, “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” Social Q?s: On Mother?s Day, Be Grateful 2010-05-06T18:09:00Z Highlights include “King Lear,” from Sept. 29 to Oct. Skirball Announces Its 2014-15 Season 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z He likens Johnson, a politician who continues to captivate historians, to King Lear. ‘Breaking Bad’ star adds luster to Seattle writer’s Broadway play 2014-03-10T20:36:00Z The story that emerged fell somewhere between film noir at its sleazy best and “King Lear.” In the New Hollywood, Sumner Redstone Is a Man Out of Time 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Then, of course, there was the 1983 television movie version of “King Lear,” with Laurence Olivier starring as the fallen monarch. John Hurt receives Shakespeare Theatre Company’s annual award Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian Verdi and Britten both considered writing operas based on King Lear, but eventually abandoned their plans. Promised End 2010-10-10T20:31:00Z The plainness of that plot is but one of the problems built into “Timon,” written around the time of “King Lear” with an assist from Thomas Middleton. Review: Shakespeare’s ‘Timon’ Gets an Occupy Athens Makeover 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Last week's news included the titbit that a DVD of King Lear has become a surprise hit at Poundland, the new destination shop for recession-hit middle classes. Harry Potter and the Deadly Dullards 2011-07-23T23:06:50Z We put together a list of possible plays: “King Lear,” “Coriolanus,” “Iceman,” a few more. Passing the Torch: Denzel Washington and Michael B. Jordan 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Ben Brantley on “King Lear”: On a bright summer night in 1996, Washington Square Park was pretending to be a storm-swept heath in ancient Britain for the Gorilla Rep’s open-air production of “King Lear.” Missing Theater Under the Stars (Even the Bugs and the Rain) 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z "I did King Lear and Prospero and Shylock, along with numerous other Shakespearean plays, but those are the ones I really wanted to do," Mandell said pensively. Theater pulses in Alan Mandell's veins 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z The Broadway revival of “King Lear,” starring Glenda Jackson as the anguished male monarch, will close a month early. ‘King Lear’ Revival Will Close Early on Broadway 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z A gorgeous retelling of “King Lear” unfolds through the story of Arthur’s life and Kirsten’s attempt to stay alive in this surprisingly beautiful tale of human relationships amid almost total devastation. The ten best books of 2014 More than in any other Shakespearean play — even more, I would argue, than in “Hamlet” — the success of “King Lear” depends on that of its title character. | 'King Lear' : ?King Lear? at the Public Theater - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z It may have inspired the menacingly chilly settings of Shakespeare’s “King Lear” and Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.” How fashion adapted to climate change — in the Little Ice Age 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z A few weeks ago, London's Donmar – whose tiny space and enormous buzz can make it tough to get a ticket – announced that this autumn's King Lear would be simulcast. Plays beamed into cinemas: is this the future of theatre? 2010-08-22T21:00:00Z Later, actor Christopher Plummer ponders how “King Lear” might have been staged in Shakespeare’s time. TV highlights: Fall Out Boy and Charli XCX on concert special ‘Super Bowl Blitz’ 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Somebody gouges out a guy’s eyes onstage in “King Lear” —— HIM I think I get it. Too Much Shakespeare? Be Not Cowed 2013-09-12T18:18:17Z What was so inspiring was his responsibility in front of the score, and how he brought everything in his life and his art to those notes in front of him: King Lear, bolognese, love. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z In 1983, he gave an acclaimed performance as the Fool in a television production of “King Lear,” with Laurence Olivier in the title role. John Hurt, British Actor Hailed for His Shape-Shifting Roles, Dies at 77 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Two of the those plays – After the Dance and King Lear – are up for best revival, along with All My Sons and When We Are Married. Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies receives seven Olivier award nods 2011-02-07T18:30:25Z In some ways, it’s a dream play, a bridge between the tragedies—“Othello,” “Macbeth,” and “King Lear”—and the late romances—“The Winter’s Tale,” “Cymbeline,” and “The Tempest.” The Continual Riddle of Shakespeare’s “Pericles” 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Both men went on to illustrious stage and screen careers, to play Richard III and King Lear, and to receive knighthoods — “We’re pretty much the same person,” Mr. McKellen joked. Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi, in a Gay Pride March Debut 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z In this genre-blurring dystopian novel, set in the near future, the Georgia Flu becomes airborne the night an actor named Arthur Leander dies during his performance as King Lear. The ten best books of 2014 Yet his comparison of Johnson with King Lear suggests how much has changed since that presidency. Bryan Cranston Is Playing Lyndon Johnson on Broadway 2014-02-05T20:10:11Z Photograph: Johan Persson After a school theatre trip to see King Lear as a teenager, I was convinced I would prefer to have teeth pulled than see the play ever again. Plays you never want to see again 2013-01-16T16:04:43Z I felt like the luckiest actor in New York as I stood on that set with my new friends on the “King Lear” lighting crew. Learning 'Lear': A Real Run-Through, and a Sneak Peek 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z It is possible that while there he wrote King Lear and Macbeth. What happened to Shakespeare's theatres? 2014-04-23T06:29:19Z How do you have the strength and stamina to pull off the kind of physically demanding performance you’re giving in “King Lear”? André De Shields Isn’t Done With ‘King Lear’ (or ‘Hadestown’) 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z In a testament to the versatility of Mr. Jacobi, who played King Lear in a 2011 BAM production, he wonderfully portrayed Romeo’s hotheaded sidekick, Mercutio. How to See London Theater on the Cheap 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z He just played King Lear in Central Park and blew everyone away. Love is Strange: John Lithgow delivers a subtle tour de force – first look review 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z IN the final scene of the Public Theater’s production of “King Lear,” now in previews and opening on Tuesday at Shakespeare in the Park, the bereft Lear enters, bearing his dead daughter in his arms. Surprises at the Delacorte Theater and Other Outdoor Spaces 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The prizewinning German theater ensemble She She Pop will deconstruct "King Lear" in a free-form production that features performers and their septuagenarian fathers enacting the Bard's classic story of cross-generational strife. Mark Morris world premiere part of On the Boards' 2012-13 season 2012-04-29T15:03:44Z “It’s playing a King Lear that hasn’t really been played.” ‘The Good Lord Bird’ Is a New Entry in the John Brown Canon 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z We carry on us what King Lear called the 'smell of mortality'; art redeems mortality by giving us a glimpse of eternity. Richard Eyre: arts cuts will result in cultural apartheid 2011-02-15T12:53:26Z Henry Winkler was hoping to play Old King Lear, perhaps Hamlet, one day, But when “Happy Days” called, His dramatic plans stalled, And he went for a role in the heyyyy. Style Invitational Week 1452: As the word turns 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z In previous shows this Korean-American writer has devised a comic revue about black identity politics, retailored Shakespeare’s “King Lear” and taken to the stage herself to perform a cabaret act mostly about death. | 'Young Jean Lee?s ?Untitled Feminist Show': Young Jean Lee?s ?Untitled Feminist Show? ? Review 2012-01-16T23:03:34Z The central character of The Marshal – played by Rodney Bewes of The Likely Lads fame – is Marshal Pétain in Vichy France, here portrayed in this New Actors Company production as a doddery King Lear figure. The Ashes, Tyne, The Moment Of Truth: what to see at the theatre this week 2013-06-22T05:00:20Z Looking closely at the text, Greenberg said, he saw “Pet Sematary” as the novelist’s “King Lear” and pointed specifically to Lear’s loss of his daughter Cordelia. ‘Pet Sematary’ Has a Shocking Change. Yes, Stephen King Approved. 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z I spent all spring preparing for “King Lear” by playing too much tennis and doing too much yoga. Learning 'Lear': Feeling the Pain 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z It takes the story of King Lear and pops it into a modern Texan setting. Ian McKellen’s favourite Shakespeare roles on film 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z In 1955 Orson Welles hatched a characteristically ambitious plan to stage the tragedy “King Lear” with Ben Jonson’s “Volpone,” a contemporaneous comedy. Theater Review: ‘Volpone,’ With Stephen Spinella, at Lucille Lortel Theater 2012-12-10T22:56:51Z Pre-eminently as King Lear, Scofield seemed not just to comprehend the world's injury better than the audience, but also to carry its bruises deeper inside him. Stop treating actors with contempt 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z Playing comedy or tragedy, pathos or hilarity, Mr. Bedford was known for controlled and layered performances, and for finding the depth and subtlety in monumental characters, from King Lear to Tartuffe. Brian Bedford, Stage Actor Who Brought the Classics to Life, Dies at 80 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z He was hardly able to move, but realised that he could still remember every word of King Lear. This week's new theatre 2013-02-16T00:05:17Z How did you come to the Hogarth Shakespeare project, and what made you choose ‘King Lear’? Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z The play’s pronouns aren’t altered — it’s still King Lear, not Queen Lear. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z It was a high-end soap opera that combined the bling of “Dynasty” with the psychological drama of “King Lear,” and it was a smash hit. Attica Locke left Hollywood to write novels. Now she’s found success in both worlds. 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z In those terms “King Lear” is the most sacred and intimidating work in the canon. | 'King Lear': He?s a Grumpy Old Man, but Don?t Dare Run Away 2011-05-06T14:33:07Z As it turns out, that’s the selling point of the series: It’s less of a “King Lear” style tragedy than a cage match peppered with low blows, playing out over 10 episodes. "Succession": a wealth of cruel humor 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z “The thing about King Lear is that it’s not set in any particular era,” said Radford. From the Godfather to Shakespeare’s mad king – Al Pacino takes on Lear 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z This is a blog about the young men of our “King Lear” ensemble. Learning 'Lear': The How-To's of Hub-Bub 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Gazzara’s Capone is a brutal, B-movie Richard III who by the end has veered into King Lear, eyes blazing as he talks to his dead mother and has an angry argument with himself. Requiem for Mr. Tough Guy 2012-02-06T17:01:31Z It's no "King Lear," that's for sure, though only one play I can think of is. The secret connection between Cervantes and Shakespeare 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z But this frolicsome tone seems a dubious tactic for “King Lear,” Shakespeare’s darkest and most corrosive tragedy. The Shakespeare Globe’s Informal ‘King Lear’ at the Skirball 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z The next time I write, our “King Lear” will have been seen by over 1,800 people. Learning 'Lear': We Really Are Putting on a Play 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z And to add one more layer to it all, Mr. Cox hears echoes of King Lear in Logan Roy’s relationship with his children. On ‘Succession,’ a Media Mogul Gets the Conniving Family He Deserves 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z When she did “King Lear” here last year, she presented Shakespeare’s violently divided royal clan as the dysfunctional family next door. Review: Domestic Doom, Fiercely Conveyed, in Ibsen and Strindberg Plays 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z And to “King Lear” to understand how a man who has “ever but slenderly known himself” could know others well enough to rule them. It’s Time to Turn the Page on the Trump-Shakespeare Comparisons 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z In 2014, she returned to New York, in a humdrum “King Lear” for Shakespeare in the Park. How Annette Bening Puts It All Onstage. But Keeps Something for Herself. 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Directing “King Lear”? Mr. Py upped the ante by translating it himself. A French Theater Impresario, Dressed for Excess 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Then he's not just off the wagon but being run over by it, again and again; mumbling something about King Lear as his vast Welsh skull thwunks repeatedly against the tarmac. Burton And Taylor: pills, booze and divadom 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z No one is messing with the plays in the manner of Nahum Tate, whose 1681 version of King Lear dominated the British stage for more than 150 years. Should a playwright have the final say over a production? 2013-07-25T11:43:37Z “Plummer’s got this enormous charm whether he’s doing King Lear or The Sound of Music. This guy’s a real colouring book, he can do anything.” Ridley Scott on erasing Kevin Spacey from his new film: 'He's a very good actor. It's a pity' 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Still, he declares that the film we are here to talk about, the BBC’s King Lear, filmed in England and directed by Richard Eyre, is the piece of work that has made him truly happy. Anthony Hopkins: ‘Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Simonson views this as a great tragedy and wants the audience to come away with the same feeling they might when leaving Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” ”King Lear” or “Macbeth.” Black Sox opera ‘The Fix’ premieres Saturday in Minnesota 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z There’s more than a trace of Lewis Carroll crossed with Caryl Churchill in Mr. Crimp’s cityscape, where, by play’s end, the blind are literally leading the blind, nodding at one point at “King Lear.” Once Cryptic, ‘The Treatment’ Now Proves Trenchantly Funny 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z "King Lear" is a tragedy in which the façades preventing us from knowing ourselves are mercilessly stripped away. With age, the wisdom of staging 'Lear' becomes less clear 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z The solid “King Lear”at Folger Theatre is so modestly mounted, it could fit in the pockets of other recent productions of Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy. A well-played, compact ‘King Lear’ at Folger Theatre King Lear is part of the Shakespeare in the Park season, which is run by the city's Public Theater. Bening joins King Lear in the park 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z A clap-along song, with accordion, begins the Shakespeare’s Globe production of “King Lear” that can be seen — and, if you’re a quick study, maybe sung along with — at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. The Shakespeare Globe’s Informal ‘King Lear’ at the Skirball 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Lloyd, who is probably better known as a stage director than a filmmaker, said she sometimes thought of “The Iron Lady” as “ ‘King Lear’ for girls.” Arts & Leisure: For ?Iron Lady,? Armor Added to Streep?s Wardrobe 2011-12-23T15:01:39Z The Academy’s current production of “King Lear,” starring Frank Langella in the title role, is being staged by the Chichester Festival Theater. Spare Times for Jan. 24-30 2014-01-24T00:43:56Z I use as my evidence the film version of King Lear that was done by the master Lear, Sir Laurence Olivier. André De Shields Isn’t Done With ‘King Lear’ (or ‘Hadestown’) 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Plenty of towering literary figures — among them Balzac, Turgenev, and the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Jane Smiley — have taken inspiration from King Lear. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Possibly because he was 74 when he took the role, Christopher Plummer imagined King Lear to be 84. Christopher Plummer’s Robust Final Act Crowned a Noble Career 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z One is to wait a long time, until the original material has achieved classic status, and then find an established heavyweight willing to step up, like a great actor taking on his third King Lear. ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ by David Lagercrantz 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Shakespeare’s Globe visited the Folger Theatre in Washington on July 25 and 26 with its world-touring “Hamlet” and returns in September with “King Lear.” In London, stages are set for pleasure The production is to be directed by Sam Gold, who also directed the Off Broadway “Othello” in which Craig appeared, and who in 2019 directed a Broadway revival of “King Lear.” Done With Bond, Daniel Craig Will Play Macbeth on Broadway 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Remarkably, he was still able to remember every word of King Lear. My Perfect Mind – review 2013-04-07T13:17:11Z In the meantime, apropos of nothing, let's look at what seven different critics thought of Dennis Kelly and the RSC's The Gods Weep, which transposes King Lear to the City of London. What to say about ... The Gods Weep | Leo Benedictus 2010-03-22T12:09:00Z An established figure in the Royal Shakespeare Company, he won a Laurence Olivier Award for best actor for his performance in the title role of “King Lear” in 1998. ‘Chariots of Fire,’ ‘Lord of the Rings’ actor Ian Holm dies 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z They refer to other productions of “King Lear.” Review: A ‘Lear’ With Hops, Spins and Posturing 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z A consummate Shakespearean, he never filmed “King Lear,” but he lived it, finding himself to be a king without a throne, prematurely aged. “The Other Side of the Wind,” Reviewed: A Belated Orson Welles Masterpiece 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Kent mournfully asks as King Lear carries Cordelia’s corpse on stage at the close of Shakespeare’s most harrowing tragedy. London theater forecast after Brexit and Trump: Overcast skies with a chance of apocalypse 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Tennessee Williams The Song of Solomon King Lear Whose belatedly published poetry included the cheery line "And every winter things get worse"? The 2012 books quiz of the year 2012-12-21T23:45:21Z "Liar's Ball" is being billed as "a Horatio Alger and King Lear tale set in a fascinating and high-stakes milieu." J.C. Chandor goes from BP spill to 'Liar's Ball' 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z You will not understand the gist of it without knowing “King Lear” inside and out, but it will give you a sense of Dan’s sensitivity, pragmatism and precision. Learning 'Lear': Time to Leave the Nest 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z There’s a moment from Act III of “King Lear” that helps me understand what it is that a tragedy should do. Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z It may sound like a backhanded compliment to praise this show as a good introductory “King Lear,” one you could take restless 10th graders to, but it is not. Review: A ‘King Lear’ in Which You Feel for All the Daughters 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z He has been sitting on a script for King Lear that Harold Pinter wrote for him, and may direct a movie in Mexico based on a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Tim Roth: ‘As messy as your life can be, there has to be a window you can escape through' 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z And Anthony Hopkins stars in a streaming “King Lear.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘RBG’ and ‘King Lear’ 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Cameron cast her white-bearded husband, Charles, a retired jurist 20 years her senior, as the wizard Merlin and a doddering King Lear. Art Review: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-08-22T19:55:31Z Freshly regenerated, his Doctor ambles round Victorian London wild-eyed in a nightshirt, insulting people while struggling to make sense of himself and his surroundings, like a sort of wise-cracking King Lear. Peter Capaldi: 'I know how to work the Tardis. I've known for a long time' 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z The play marked Mr. Keach’s first return to the Goodman Theater more than a decade after he portrayed the title role in Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” directed by Mr. Falls. ‘Pamplona’ Is Canceled After Stacy Keach Falls Ill 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z And the storm Tchaikovsky composed in Act IV becomes as cosmic as the one in Shakespeare’s “King Lear.” Critic?s Notebook: One Classic Ballet, Many Interpretations 2011-07-05T00:25:11Z His productions of “Titus Andronicus,” “King Lear” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” revolutionized contemporary Shakespearean stagecraft. Portrait of the artist as an ageless man: At 92, Peter Brook treads a different path through 'The Mahabharata' 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z King Lear in New York with Armstrong’s trademark The Thick of It smart talk and ugly truth. Streamadelica: the 30 best box sets to watch before you die 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z At the Internet Shakespeare Editions, you can find seven different texts of “King Lear,” along with ten facsimiles. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Ms. Hamnett introduces herself as a woman named Noreen who changed her name to Norris and pretended to be a man to apply for the position of Fool at the court of King Lear. | 'Nearly Lear': An Answer to a Crying Need: ?King Lear? for Children 2011-01-10T23:30:23Z For me, it isn’t enough that a book deploys Shakespeare, and even cites “King Lear” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” fluently, as “Station Eleven” did. Emily St. John Mandel Is Back, With a Ponzi Scheme Instead of a Pandemic 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z Season 2, about staging “Macbeth,” is available starting Nov. 25, and Season 3, in which they do “King Lear,” is available starting Dec. 16. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Dobbs’s title also happens to echo the title of “King Lear,” Shakespeare’s tragedy about a monarch whose need for flattery invites treachery, precipitating his own downfall. ‘King Richard’ Finds Fresh Drama in Watergate 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Now, I had no dreams of doing “King Lear” at the time, but it was a lesson that I took into my toolbox about the believability of storytelling. André De Shields Isn’t Done With ‘King Lear’ (or ‘Hadestown’) 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z His award-winning production of King Lear will transfer to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York in April for a three-month run. Jude Law returns to London stage in Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie 2011-01-14T13:15:02Z Preventing a younger generation from enjoying their first King Lear or Hamlet amounts to cultural vandalism. Lyn Gardner on funding Shakespeare 2012-07-22T19:00:03Z When I did “King Lear” in 2007, my daughter was just turning 7, and my son was much younger. Just Asking: Deidra LaWan Starnes in Folger Theatre’s ‘Julius Caesar’ And with great plays, from "King Lear" to "The Importance of Being Earnest," I often find myself discovering that they aren't at all what I thought they were about when I saw them before. ArtsBeat: Ben Brantley Answers Readers' Questions, Part 2 2012-12-06T16:13:06Z “And I don’t want to play King Lear any more. These are men’s stories, and I want to tell women’s stories.” Juliet Stevenson Returns to ‘The Doctor,’ and the New York Stage 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Two years before his death, the actor realized a lifelong goal by playing King Lear at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, where he had been part of the company during his formative years. Actor Pete Postlethwaite dies after long cancer battle 2011-01-03T15:16:00Z He will need to find room for the new poster for King Lear, which is being masterminded by venerable veteran director and TV presenter Jonathan Miller. King Lear gets a Yorkshire accent 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z It makes the "The Giant Claw" look like "King Lear." As Gronk's set designs go on view at CAFAM, the artist talks opera, painting and B-movie crab monsters 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z And just like learning Portuguese or writing "King Lear," the goals we set for ourselves in this incredibly anxious, enraging, grief-riddled time don't have to be lofty, unpleasant, or against our talents and interests. Give up on that sourdough and embrace the tao of "I Hate to Cook" 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z On Thursday, the STC’s online page listing of King Lear was taken down. Geoffrey Rush denies allegations of 'inappropriate behaviour' in play 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z “King Lear” is full of high-pitched, raw emotion. Learning 'Lear': A King's Gotta Eat 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Something in his proud frailty recalls King Lear on the heath. Krapp's Last Tape – review 2012-08-26T17:00:01Z The company will be back on campus, but indoors, to stage “King Lear” next year. Props warrior Sierra Banack is ready to help a new guild with ‘Warcraft’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Then, in 2007, he was offered the chance to play King Lear in New Zealand. This week's new theatre 2013-02-16T00:05:17Z And staging Shakespeare's "King Lear" — and the musical "Fiddler on the Roof." Busy director Sheila Daniels helms 'Dancing at Lughnasa' at Seattle Rep 2010-11-14T05:01:00Z "Ran," Japanese master Akira Kurosawa's epic meditation on "King Lear," will screen at the Varsity this week in a new 35-mm print, celebrating its 25th anniversary. At A Theater Near You: Classics 'Ran,' 'Mamma Roma' getting new showings 2010-09-02T19:20:00Z Eventually Ireland even produced a transcript of the entire text of a lost play, laced with poetic echoes of Hamlet and King Lear. Mistaken identity 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z I tried anyway: Lorrie Moore: "What are the names of King Lear's dogs?" Serious questions about literature ? in quiz form 2011-01-07T11:07:32Z But returning to “King Lear” during a pandemic has actually opened me up. André De Shields Isn’t Done With ‘King Lear’ (or ‘Hadestown’) 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z A “King Lear” for the Def Jam Records generation, the series stars Terrence Howard as a dying hip-hop mogul whose family wrestles for control of his entertainment company. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Single Parents’ and ‘Empire’ 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z The Daily Mail reported the news of “King Lear” in February, though the theater’s publicity team did not confirm it until Wednesday. Glenda Jackson to Play King Lear at the Old Vic 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Besides, it's good to be realistic: the puppet show The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik is a total joy from start to finish, but it's not King Lear. Lyn Gardner on Edinburgh star ratings 2011-08-21T20:59:02Z I’ve finished my first day of rehearsal, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., for a Shakespeare in the Park production of “King Lear.” Learning 'Lear': John Lithgow's Shakespeare in the Park Diary 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z The first thing I did was to forget that I had done “King Lear” before. André De Shields Isn’t Done With ‘King Lear’ (or ‘Hadestown’) 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z I was waiting for him to do King Lear. Joan Rivers Remembers Robin Williams 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z As is the case with many of this season’s main-stem offerings, the road to New York for this “King Lear” and “Burn This” has hardly been a straight line. Glenda Jackson and Adam Driver: Performers With a License to Rage 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z On an RSC four-actor tour of Hamlet and King Lear, he fell in love with Tucson, Arizona, where, with his encouragement, two of his sons now live. John Burgess obituary 2011-01-02T18:22:59Z On Brook giving her the courage to direct “King Lear,” which she did to acclaim for Theater for a New Audience in 2014. ‘He Presented Another Path’: Actors and Directors on Peter Brook 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z “If I am forced to choose only one book for the president, it would be hard to leave out ‘King Lear,’” says the Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen, whose forthcoming memoir is “Home in the World.” Why the Nobel-Winning Economist Amartya Sen Recommends ‘King Lear’ 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Today, on our last day in the Martinson Hall rehearsal space, we finally did a nonstop run-through of “King Lear.” Learning 'Lear': A Real Run-Through, and a Sneak Peek 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z "Thou art a boil, A plague sore, an embossed carbuncle," King Lear says to his daughter Goneril. Out, damned spot! Study blames Shakespeare for zit aversion 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z An alternative King Lear, with Barrie Rutter in the lead role, comes from director Jonathan Miller and Northern Broadsides. Theatre 2015: A look-ahead 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Not “King Lear,” which had tantalized Verdi for years. Music Review: Finding High Spirits in Shakespeare 2011-05-09T21:42:29Z Cranston told the Times that he wanted to play L.B.J. “because he is the King Lear of modern theater in this play.” American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Recall the stage directions in “King Lear”: “Enter Lear with Cordelia in his arms.” A Mother Loses a Son to Suicide, but Their Dialogue Continues 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z One thing that Shakespeare’s play “King Lear” does not mention is what happened to his wife and queen, the mother of his daughters. Review | In ‘A Thousand Acres,’ I killed Lear’s wife. A new novel has better plans for her. 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z In two years I'd already done Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear in five different languages . Shakespeare inspires forest drama 2012-09-05T07:31:23Z “Can you imagine the original guy who told the story of King Lear?” Music: Phil Spector Film Poses Fair Use Questions 2010-06-26T02:49:00Z Shakespeare's Globe will be bringing its production of "King Lear" to the Broad Stage in Santa Monica in November. With age, the wisdom of staging 'Lear' becomes less clear 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z If “King Lear” is about losing one’s mind, “Hillary and Clinton” is about losing, and how difficult it is to accept its finality. The Broadway Life of Hillary Clinton 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z But “King Lear” is not about the plague. Perspective | What will post-pandemic fiction look like? The novels that followed 9/11 offer some clues. 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z He won Tony Awards for Cyrano and Barrymore and would even get to go back to Shakespeare, as King Lear, later in life. Christopher Plummer got a third act worth singing about 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z On March 2, with nine cases reported in Santa Clara County, I began to record lectures on “King Lear,” so students could watch from their dorm rooms. How a College Final Became a Lesson in Survival 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z And on a chilly day last November, he was about to shoot his final scene as King Lear in the new made-for-television film of Shakespeare’s tragedy, which debuts on Amazon Prime Video on Friday. Anthony Hopkins Returns to ‘King Lear,’ Finally Up to the Challenge 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Toward the end of our play, King Lear explicitly states his age: “I am a very foolish, fond old man, fourscore and upwards, not an hour more or less.” Learning 'Lear': Feeling the Pain 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z As King Lear goes mad, he notices the three little dogs, Trey, Blanch, and Sweetheart, which he imagined must be barking at him. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z But when I entered “Trump” and “King Lear,” more than 2.8 million links popped up. It’s Time to Turn the Page on the Trump-Shakespeare Comparisons 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z It is a play about not playing King Lear. The King’s the Thing, Not the Play, for an Actor Who Would Be Lear 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z “King Lear” has lowered its voice, the better to be heard more clearly. Theater Review: ‘King Lear,’ With Michael Pennington, Opens in Brooklyn 2014-03-28T02:00:01Z Until then, this “extended meditation” on a scene from “King Lear” is punctuated by an occasional quip or concept that keeps it watchable, despite other gratuitous episodes that arise. | 'Storm Still': ?King Lear? Inspires a Riff on the Endurance of Time 2011-02-27T23:00:47Z A Shakespearean troupe in Toronto is performing “King Lear” when the leading man, a onetime matinee idol named Arthur Leander, starts behaving strangely. Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Station Eleven,’ a Flu Apocalypse 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z “King Lear” runs through May 28 at the National Theater in London; nationaltheatre.org.uk. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z The Caesar of Greg Hicks, previously seen as King Lear and as Leontes in “The Winter’s Tale,” is a strutting, icy egotist easily flattered into the fatal trap. | 'Julius Caesar': Cry Havoc! The Blood Sport Called Politics 2011-07-31T22:23:03Z It is not uncommon in the theater for one generation’s leading Hamlet to become another’s King Lear. Plácido Domingo Defies the Gravity of Age 2014-03-07T15:00:03Z They want to get on with their lives, not be forced to analyze the meter in “King Lear” in night school in order to become a cop or a nurse’s aide. Books of The Times: An Academic Hit Man Brings More Bad News 2011-04-05T21:12:11Z He’s the Fool in the scheme of its gloss on “King Lear” and the surrogate for a viewer navigating the intrigues of his ultra-rich relations in the series’s Roy family. A Tribute to Cousin Greg, the Secret Weapon of “Succession” 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Both productions were about to travel to the United States: “King Lear” runs through April 29 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and “Hamlet” arrives at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on May 2. After ‘Hamlet’ and ‘King Lear,’ Where Else Can Paapa Essiedu Go? 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z And I was beginning to fear that, beyond “King Lear,” it was going to hurt like this forever. Learning 'Lear': Feeling the Pain 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z He contemplated settings of “Hamlet” and “King Lear.” Verdi’s Shakespeare Resonates Across Italian Opera Houses 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z The great challenge of “King Lear,” especially for an actor playing the king, is modulation. Learning 'Lear': When To Hold Back, When to Let Go 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z David Suchet was named best actor for his work in Arthur Miller's All My Sons, with Sir Derek Jacobi winning the best Shakespearean performance award for King Lear. Dench feted at South Bank awards 2011-01-25T16:50:22Z The evidence was “solidly against” the newspaper and Rush’s King Lear co-star, Eryn Jean Norvill, who was revealed after the November 2017 reports to be the subject of the allegations against Rush. Geoffrey Rush defamation case: actor set to win millions from News Corp 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Usually people say an actor's career is marked by playing Shakespeare's great tragic heroes Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear. A Minute With: Ethan Hawke on acting, Selena Gomez and Shakespeare 2013-08-28T12:05:18Z He said he had been wanting to cast and direct Ms. Dukakis for many years, recalling her portrayal of a female King Lear at Shakespeare & Company in 1998. ArtsBeat: Olympia Dukakis to Play Prospero for Shakespeare & Company 2012-01-11T19:45:57Z Acting in the plays of Tennessee Williams, Sam Shepard or Annie Baker won’t adequately prepare you for the monumental task of performing “King Lear.” Summer Shakespeare: A critic's take on the secret to theatrical success 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z The work will assuredly continue: Hamlet has just opened; there are plans to do King Lear with Russell Beale, plus a welter of other projects at the National. A life in theatre: Nicholas Hytner 2010-10-18T07:00:00Z All week we have sat at four tables placed in a square formation, 20 of us facing in on each other as we picked our way through the gorgeous, thorny script of “King Lear.” Learning 'Lear': Put It In the Blog! 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Now that baby boomers are reaching their seniority, it's no surprise that there has been a rush on "King Lear." With age, the wisdom of staging 'Lear' becomes less clear 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Now she is back with her own son, who may not adore the Bard like his grandfather, but was willing to endure a production of “King Lear” for his mother’s sake. Exploring post-Brexit Britain while the pound is at an all-time low 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z It was like a one-man avant-garde performance of “King Lear,” given by Brian Williams. Fox News is half-right about Jon Stewart: How the brilliant satirist of the Bush years has been undone by his BFF in the White House 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Shorn of the philosophical musings of "Hamlet" or the comic business of "King Lear," Shakespeare's story of the Moor and the envious villain who destroys him moves as swiftly as poison through the blood. 'Iago: A Novel' ? the morning after a bloody mess 2012-01-04T22:57:03Z King Lear will be performed from 22 July to 17 August at the Delacorte Theatre, an outdoor amphitheatre. Bening joins King Lear in the park 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z As for his own notorious demise, which rivals anything in King Lear or Titus Andronicus, the news was broken to him by a man in the street. Charles Dance: 'Thank God the BBC didn't make Game of Thrones' 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z His 2007 creation, "The Last Lear," was in English and centered on a retired actor who is persuaded to return to cinema to reprise the lead role in a production of Shakespeare's "King Lear." Award-winning Indian director Ghosh dies at 49 2013-05-30T15:28:09Z His 2007 film, The Last Lear, was in English and centered on a retired actor who is persuaded to return to cinema to reprise the lead role in a production of Shakespeare's King Lear. Rituparno Ghosh: Indian film director dies age 49 2013-05-30T10:00:06Z Part King Lear and part Henry IV, this tells us that Abernathy not only wants revenge, but he probably knows he’s a machine. The Complete Guide to All Westworld's Many References 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z "The role is the size of Lear," he said, referring to Shakespeare's "King Lear" character. Actor Bryan Cranston steps into LBJ's shoes for Broadway debut 2014-01-22T22:54:08Z Scholars of Shakespeare have often been a bit perplexed by this late tragedy, written after the concentrated period of creativity that produced “King Lear,” “Macbeth” and “Antony and Cleopatra.” Review: An Electrifying ‘Coriolanus,’ Addicted to War 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Quantum Theatre is using the backdrop of the Carrie Furnace for its production of “King Lear,” the bard’s darkest tragedy. Theater company brings Shakespeare to steel 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z Consequently, the best literary precedent for what we’re enduring now is not the static image of Big Brother but the turbulent eruptions of King Lear. Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Announcing the season, Doran said it was linking Death of a Salesman with King Lear in order to assert Arthur Miller's drama as "the greatest American play of the 20th Century". Sir Antony Sher to play Lear for RSC 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Then again “King Lear” is not an especially subtle play. A King Lear Set in India, Wild and Tragic as Ever 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Industry forecasters were watching the throne closely, with King Lear Lucious and the Queen of Pop battling for the top spot—even though Empire wasn’t even a contender until the last minute. 'Empire' Soundtrack Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z “Hamlet” and “King Lear” might not fit within these confines, but most theatrical stories comfortably can. Oh, the dreaded intermission: Long plays at a time when shorter is sweeter 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Playwright David Hare declared Scofield's King Lear "the greatest classical performance of my lifetime". Laurence Olivier, Judi Dench, Mark Rylance? Who is the greatest stage actor ever? 2010-09-22T23:01:00Z Election night might have had me wanting to retreat into “King Lear” but only so that I might eventually share what I found there. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Shot in colour and influenced by King Lear, Ran, his final grand-scale project, was not without professional and personal cost but confirmed his abilities remained intact. Akira Kurosawa: 10 essential films for the director's centenary | Ben Walters 2010-03-23T13:14:00Z Shakespeare will also loom large, with Seoul's Mokhwa Repertory Company weaving The Tempest into fifth-century Korean chronicles, while King Lear will be "deconstructed" in a one-man show by Contemporary Legend Theatre of Taipei. Edinburgh international festival 2011 offers Eastern promise 2011-03-23T12:00:50Z There are 14 members of the “King Lear” ensemble, several of whom are acting students or recent graduates. Learning 'Lear': The How-To's of Hub-Bub 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z That looks likely to be followed by his own King Lear, to be directed by the actor’s frequent stage collaborator, Sam Mendes. 2010-01-13T05:52:00Z Shakespeare & Company, as its name implies, goes heavy on classics — starting July 2, Christopher Lloyd plays King Lear — while Barrington Stage Company focuses on musicals and new plays. A Guide to Theater Festivals in New York and the Berkshires 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Directing a classic play, whether it's King Lear or Our Country's Good, is a bit like driving a Rolls-Royce. Timberlake Wertenbaker: 'I'd love to write for Holby City' 2013-01-14T18:45:02Z But Shakespeare gave us Cordelia, too — King Lear’s daughter, who grieves for her living father when she sees how diminished he has become. A Ghostly Father Sets Off a Cascade of Memories 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z We hope that, like the seemingly mad Edgar in King Lear, Daryl is just shamming – and that he will, like the Shakespearean dissembler, cast off his mask and take out the evil trash. The Walking Dead: season seven, episode four – Service 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z We began our relationship when he directed Arthur Miller’s “Finishing the Picture” in 2004 at the Goodman Theater, and two years later collaborated on “King Lear.” Stacy Keach Had a Heart Attack Onstage. Now, the Show Goes On. 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z In the trial scene in “King Lear,” Edgar/Tom protests the Fool’s own nonsense, saying, “The foul fiend haunts poor Tom in the voice of a nightingale.” The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z “No one would ever say that about ‘King Lear’ or ‘Romeo and Juliet,’” she said. How Do You Solve a Problem Like ‘Emma’? 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z A group had hired a mariachi band to play at their birthday party in Inwood Hill Park, about 150 feet away from where we were presenting “King Lear.” Surprises at the Delacorte Theater and Other Outdoor Spaces 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z He may also direct a Harold Pinter script of King Lear and reprise Trevor the skinhead in a sequel to Made in Britain. Tim Roth: ‘If you neglect the working class for so long they will rebel against you’ 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Ian McKellen received his 10th Olivier nomination, for “No Man’s Land,” and Glenda Jackson was nominated for playing the title role in “King Lear.” ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Ties Record for Most Olivier Nominations 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z But if I am forced to choose only one book for the president, it would be hard to leave out “King Lear.” Why the Nobel-Winning Economist Amartya Sen Recommends ‘King Lear’ 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z What, you haven't written the modern equivalent of "King Lear" yet? Comfort food for your eyes: Here are 7 easily bingeable sitcoms you haven't seen 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z “These were press conferences in support of the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of King Lear, this is not mainstream entertainment, this is not a Harry Potter movie,” Blackburn said. Geoffrey Rush damages 'extraordinary and absurd', Daily Telegraph argues 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z The famed Globe Theatre of London will bring its scaled-down production of “King Lear” to the U.S. this fall, and play three performances at Seattle’s Moore Theatre on Nov. 25-26. Globe brings ‘King Lear' to Seattle 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z In dim light we made our way through “King Lear,” “Henry IV,” “Jane Eyre,” Keats’s odes, the poems of Rupert Brooke. In a nursing home, a friendship built around great literature 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z The “King Lear” evoked in “Songs of Lear” shares so little with Shakespeare’s tragedy that the show’s director, Grzegorz Bral, delivers an explanatory introduction onstage. Review: ‘Songs of Lear,’ We Hear Cordelia Singing 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The power of has-been Bayreuth's King Lear | Martin Kettle All today's stories Last 24 hours 1. Bayreuth's King Lear | Martin Kettle 2010-03-23T09:30:00Z Aging stage actors typically dream of playing King Lear, but many of their younger screen counterparts these days will settle for nothing less than Jesus. Movie Review: The Mob Work Is Tough; Then He Has to Go Home 2010-12-28T22:45:33Z Its production of “King Lear,” starring Mr. Waterston as that tragic Shakespearean monarch and directed by James Macdonald, will begin performances on Oct. ArtsBeat: Public Theater Unveils Its 2011-2012 Season 2011-04-26T16:44:10Z Let’s say the Comédie-Française, France’s prestigious theater company, was presenting Sidney’s “King Lear,” in lieu of Shakespeare’s. Mary Sidney, Shakespeare and the Authorship Question 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z The switch was as dramatic as his move from Prince Hal to King Lear. Ian Holm, Malleable Actor Who Played Lear and a Hobbit, Dies at 88 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z “It’s like getting to be King Lear, but even better,” he said in a recent phone interview. ‘The Good Lord Bird’ Is a New Entry in the John Brown Canon 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z While with plays such as Hamlet, Othello and King Lear we can compare the Folio against the quarto, for other plays – such as Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest and Macbeth – we cannot. Who edited Shakespeare? 2013-07-12T13:00:01Z Sampling “King Lear” as a touchstone for the incoherent rage of a deteriorating personality became almost de rigueur in the chaotic last months of the Trump presidency. It’s Time to Turn the Page on the Trump-Shakespeare Comparisons 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z There was the taxi ride in Los Angeles, when she picked up an email saying that Richard Eyre wanted her for Cordelia in his BBC Two film, opposite Anthony Hopkins’ King Lear. Florence Pugh: ‘Me, the next Kate Winslet? That’s ridiculous’ 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z At the beginning of Act I, Scene 4 of “King Lear,” Kent addresses a speech directly to the audience. Learning 'Lear': The How-To's of Hub-Bub 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Hopkins gets to perform chunks of "King Lear" in "The Dresser," and the experience has emboldened him to tackle Shakespeare's tragedy again. Anthony Hopkins overcomes his stage fright in 'The Dresser' 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z For his part, Milo has gone full crystal-tipped King Lear, promising the cancellation will provoke “a class-action lawsuit on behalf of my fans”. Could Milo Yiannopoulos treat Australia like a lucrative panto gig? Oh, no he couldn’t! 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z A favorite passage from “King Lear” appears in “Birthday Candles,” and the name of an onstage goldfish — Atman — comes from the name of a poodle adored by the great German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Playwright Noah Haidle blows out his ‘Birthday Candles’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Perhaps the oddest deal he made at the festival was an agreement with Jean-Luc Godard, said to have been signed on a napkin at a hotel bar, to direct a version of “King Lear.” Menahem Golan, Passionate Auteur of the B-Movie, Is Dead at 85 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z Scaling the summit of “King Lear” is, surely, GreenStage’s most ambitious current assignment. Outdoor Shakespeare done well 2013-07-19T17:38:50Z Midway through “King Lear,” the audience burst into applause at Gloucester’s line, “ ’Tis the times’ plague, when madmen lead the blind.” The Broadway Life of Hillary Clinton 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Years ago in an undergraduate Shakespeare paper I posited that the lustful sisters of “King Lear,” Goneril and Regan, might have been affected by stages of the moon often mentioned in that play. Edward St. Aubyn sets aside autobiographical fiction in 'Dunbar' and updates Shakespeare's 'King Lear' 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Little touches such as that, plus a great score and terrific leads, make "Bonnie & Clyde" a peripatetic, but pretty musical, despite having a body count almost as high as "King Lear." 'Bonnie & Clyde' has murderous leads, killer songs 2011-12-02T23:27:18Z Though Meyerhold’s wife, a great actress of her day, was stabbed 17 times, her killers gouged her eyes out as well, a reference to “King Lear.” Review: Peter Brook Asks the Ultimate Question in ‘Why?’ 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Glenda Jackson, returning to the stage after her long detour in Parliament, scaled the Himalayan part of King Lear in Deborah Warner’s Old Vic production. Notes on a truly Shakespearean year: An enlightened boldness brings out the best in the Bard 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z As recently as 2013, he appeared as the Earl of Gloucester in a production of Shakespeare’s King Lear at the Old Vic in London, directed by Sir Jonathan Miller, who died last month. British actor Tony Britton dies aged 95 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z We wanted to honor the mythology of the King Lear story, and I hope we did. "Empire" Showrunner: We Always Planned That Would Happen to Lucious 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Mackintosh seamlessly weaves together the themes of Shakespeare — the harsh, overprotective fathers from “The Tempest” and “King Lear” — with the very modern issue of toxic masculinity. Review | A dystopian novel takes on rape culture 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z “Are you performing it somewhere?” a woman asked excitedly, after giving Mr. Jones money for a scene from “King Lear” on the L train. Watch the Screaming Shakespeareans, Please 2011-08-14T16:26:53Z The play tells the story of … well, it tells the story of King Lear. What to say about ... The Gods Weep | Leo Benedictus 2010-03-22T12:09:00Z The company will present five plays in repertory — “As You Like It,” “Julius Caesar,” “King Lear,” “Romeo and Juliet” and “The Winter’s Tale” — on a full-scale replica of the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford-upon-Avon. Summer Stages 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z Characters in many Shakespeare plays – notably Measure for Measure, Richard III, Titus Andronicus and King Lear – end up in jail at some point. Why prisons hold playwrights captive 2011-02-23T15:27:28Z Missing almost entirely is the mother of King Lear’s children, the queen. You Know About King Lear. A New Novel Tells His Banished Queen’s Tale. 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z When she returned to the theater at 80, years after retiring from Parliament, it was — but of course — in the most titanically angry role in the classic canon: King Lear, at London’s Old Vic. Glenda Jackson, an Unnervingly Energizing Presence at Every Age 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z It wasn’t: “Well, I suppose it’s my time to play Lear”, but “Oh mother of God! I’m playing King Lear at the National Theatre!” 'This is the best moment of my life,' he said, lying in the bath: Ian Holm remembered 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z "King Lear" may be harder to pull off because of its monstrous scale. 'Macbeth' succeeds in avoiding its onstage curse when it's on-screen 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z David Bell, who directed the play in 2014 in at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre became interested, like Nunn, in what happened to Shakespeare between “King Lear” and “Pericles.” The Continual Riddle of Shakespeare’s “Pericles” 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Cranston said, “because he is the King Lear of modern theater in this play.” Bryan Cranston Is Playing Lyndon Johnson on Broadway 2014-02-05T20:10:11Z One moment Trump is like King Lear, deciding which of his children deserves to succeed him; the next he is Richard III, scheming to seize the crown. Trump gets a bold Shakespearean twist in new play ‘The 47th’ 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z More than this, the old theatres would be made to address the town, and open themselves up to the public whether they were coming to sit through King Lear or not. Royal Shakespeare Theatre: All's well ? 2010-11-23T18:43:00Z Shakespeare's Fool wasn't really foolish at all – he tried to make King Lear see sense. Readers recommend: songs about fools ? results 2011-08-11T14:33:14Z The answer seems to be that he is an actor caged and imprisoned by his lifelong obsession with King Lear. King Lear ? review 2011-08-14T17:00:03Z The day before “King Lear,” she had attended “Ain’t Too Proud,” a jukebox musical about the Temptations, and then posed backstage with the actors. The Broadway Life of Hillary Clinton 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Melling is not a stranger to the stage; he’s just completed a run as the Fool in “King Lear” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. ArtsBeat: Brits Off Broadway to Feature Mini-Festival of Ayckbourn Plays 2014-02-10T13:01:59Z Mixing shades of “Macbeth” and “King Lear,” the director Dileesh Pothan enlivens universal themes of greed, ambition and familial conflict by firmly rooting his film in its time and place. Five International Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z When she saw “King Lear,” she immediately wanted to play the title role. Juliet Stevenson Returns to ‘The Doctor,’ and the New York Stage 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z That was the way I felt during much of Sam Gold’s production of “King Lear,” which opened on Thursday night with the extraordinary Glenda Jackson in the title role. Review: Glenda Jackson Rules a Muddled World in ‘King Lear’ 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Groucho, on the other hand, became fixated on “King Lear,” in which the hero, Edgar, just so happens to disguise himself as a madman named Tom. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z In “King Lear” Edmund and Lear never appear onstage together and so, except for the curtain call, neither will Eric and I. Learning 'Lear': Torn Between Soccer and Shakespeare 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Fig Newtons and “King Lear,” bitter lemon as well for Othello, that desolate conspicuous soul. Review: In Rita Dove’s Verse, Tangy Words to Savor 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z One of his last stage roles was a 1986 National Theatre production of "King Lear." Anthony Hopkins overcomes his stage fright in 'The Dresser' 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Nabokov's quiz question: what are the names of King Lear's dogs? The Guardian Review quiz 2010-12-16T12:56:46Z Might this summer’s pair of Shakespeare characters, with their potent but diminishing powers, be a test run for the granddaddy of all roles, King Lear? A Lifetime of Roles, Sometimes Two at a Time 2011-06-15T22:29:15Z He is also producing a new adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” as well as revivals of “The Waverly Gallery” and “King Lear.” Nathan Lane and Andrea Martin Will Star in New Taylor Mac Play 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Gloucester's blinding in King Lear is always most horrifying when it is least seen. Stage fright: which plays have left you reeling in horror? 2012-10-11T13:37:50Z His 2007 creation, "The Last Lear," in the English language, centered on a retired actor who is persuaded to return to cinema to reprise the lead role in a production of Shakespeare's "King Lear." Award-winning Indian director Ghosh dies at 49 2013-05-30T07:08:17Z I decided to veer off into Central Park to see if anyone was working on our “King Lear” set at the Delacorte Theater. Learning 'Lear': A Real Run-Through, and a Sneak Peek 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Do you remember, mid-March, when everyone kept recalling that Shakespeare wrote “King Lear” while in quarantine? Amy Sillman’s Breakthrough Moment Is Here 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Imagine King Lear rewritten by Oscar Wilde and you get the sense of a piece in which wit and cynicism jostle with madness amid a raging storm. The Moment of Truth – review 2013-07-01T17:08:20Z High school drama groups can dash off the Scottish play, but you need some gray hairs and wisdom to put together a great King Lear. The Met's Don Carlo: Verdi's Masterpiece, for Everyone 2010-12-10T21:50:00Z He was busy rehearsing the title role in “Hamlet” while also preparing for “King Lear,” in which he is playing Edmund alongside Antony Sher. After ‘Hamlet’ and ‘King Lear,’ Where Else Can Paapa Essiedu Go? 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z That latest one, for the moment, has Frank Langella driving: He plays the title role in a Chichester Festival Theater production of “King Lear” that opened last week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Saturation of Shakespeare Offers Tough Choices 2014-01-21T22:13:00Z In one of the play's best lines, when Mr Prince, the dentist's father-in-law, is asked why he no longer speaks to his daughter, he responds: "I am the American King Lear." Rocket to the Moon revived 2011-03-19T00:06:40Z The new production of King Lear will be set at the time it was written - around 1605. King Lear gets a Yorkshire accent 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Looking at the list, I thought I was better suited to King Lear rather than Romeo and Juliet. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z ‘King Lear’ In Angus Jackson’s straightforward, storybook version of Shakespeare’s monumental tragedy, there’s not much doubt about what drives its title character around the bend. Theater Listings for Jan. 24-30 2014-01-23T23:45:21Z It is the plot of King Lear moved to the mid-West, with the added twist that it is narrated by the sister who has taken the role of Goneril. Ten of the best 2011-02-05T00:14:00Z King Lear Loft Ensemble stages Shakespeare’s classic tragedy as the first show in the company’s new venue. L.A. theater openings, July 3-10: 'right left with heels' and more 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Two major productions of “King Lear” are taking place on opposite sides of the River Thames, but for London audiences this embarrassment of Shakespearean riches is as normal as autumn’s gunmetal skies. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Ensconced in the bulky pelt of an indeterminate beast, Antony Sher’s King Lear enters, separate and unequal, carried aloft in a smudged plexiglass box. Review: A ‘King Lear’ in Which You Feel for All the Daughters 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z For something rather different, look to Wu Hsing-kuo's one-man King Lear, which the Taipei native performs in Mandarin. This week's new theatre 2011-08-12T23:08:37Z Des McAnuff, the artistic director of the festival, who describes Mr. Bedford as “our most vital link to the illustrious past,” recalled the actor asking him, “What do you do after King Lear?” The Importance of Being Astonished 2011-01-09T02:00:58Z To continue the gender flip, King Lear’s children are portrayed by men. Dance Listings for Feb. 12-18 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The plays are the things when "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "King Lear" are explored in new episodes of "Shakespeare Uncovered." TV This Week, Jan. 25-31: 'Bad Words,' Mel Brooks and more 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z During its preview performances in June, New York Classical Theater was allowed to put on “King Lear” for only up to 75 audience members outdoors. Can I Go to See This Show? Must I Wear a Mask? It Depends. 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z A magnificent incredulity flows, as hot and coursing as lava, from Frank Langella’s King Lear when he discovers that people are no longer quaking when he commands. Theater Review: Frank Langella, Roaring at Defiance in ‘King Lear’ 2014-01-17T03:00:02Z An adaptation of “King Lear” staged in London last summer starred one actor and nine sheep. ‘Harry Potter’ Play Says Live Owls Will No Longer be Used in Show 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z He did an informal reading of a partial script in 2009 with the cast of his production of “King Lear,” then at the Kennedy Center in Washington. ‘2666,’ a Most Difficult Novel, Takes the Stage 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Who, I wondered, could criticize the devastating finale of “King Lear” or “A Farewell to Arms”? Those scenes are among the most moving in Western literature. Perspective | What book has the most disappointing ending? Readers have many opinions. 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Shakespeare didn't invent Hamlet and King Lear; he plucked them from historical and literary sources. The Boy Who Lived Forever 2011-07-07T09:15:00Z As productions of "King Lear" go, this is lightweight and largely forgettable. Globe's compact 'King Lear,' at the Broad, lacks needed heft 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z A month earlier, when the 81-year-old Ms. Jackson accepted the Evening Standard Award for “King Lear” at the Old Vic, the crowd roared its approval. Glenda Jackson on Quitting Parliament, Playing Lear and Returning to Broadway 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Through a mixture of natural intelligence and careful husbanding of his resources, he reached the summit as King Lear on the same stage where his father had played the role more than 50 years previously. Corin Redgrave obituary 2010-04-06T18:58:00Z In bringing “King Lear” into the Cort, there must have been an assumption that the audience would be intimately familiar with the tragedy’s particulars. Review | Glenda Jackson as King Lear was a good idea. Why is everything around her so wrong? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z “We That Are Young,” a hectic new novel by Preti Taneja, a retelling of King Lear set in present-day India, was published last year in Britain to much acclaim. A King Lear Set in India, Wild and Tragic as Ever 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z After 12 preview performances, tonight is the official opening of our “King Lear.” 'Learning' Lear: Places, Please, for Opening Night 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z In "The Dresser" — airing Monday in the U.S. on Starz — the 78-year-old Welsh actor plays Sir, a cranky, creaky old thespian mounting a threadbare wartime production of "King Lear" and battling the infirmities of age. Anthony Hopkins overcomes his stage fright in 'The Dresser' 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Eight years ago, the English actor Edward Petherbridge flew to New Zealand to play King Lear. The King’s the Thing, Not the Play, for an Actor Who Would Be Lear 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Admit it: You are curious to know whether Christopher Lloyd, still best known for his comedic roles in “Taxi” and the “Back to the Future” trilogy, could pull off “King Lear.” Theater to Stream: ‘Wicked in Concert,’ Christopher Lloyd as Lear 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Might this summer's pair of Shakespeare characters, with their potent but diminishing powers, be a test run for the granddaddy of all roles, King Lear? At 81, John Cullum relishes his two roles in Shakespeare in the Park 2011-06-19T03:42:04Z If I hadn't started writing about theatre professionally – and therefore had less choice than most theatregoers as to what shows I saw – it's perfectly possible I may never have seen another King Lear. Plays you never want to see again 2013-01-16T16:04:43Z Accomplished actress though she indisputably is, Phylicia Rashad is not someone who comes to mind when you think of Shakespeare’s King Lear. Review: In ‘Head of Passes,’ Phylicia Rashad Is a Matriarch With Worries 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z With King Lear he is following in the footsteps of Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles, and taking on one of the world’s most coveted acting roles. From the Godfather to Shakespeare’s mad king – Al Pacino takes on Lear 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z “After all, how many times is the National Theatre going to do ‘King Lear’?” he asked. Perspective | How do you sell Shakespeare in 2020? The Englishman newly heading a storied D.C. theater has a playbook. 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z This likable if more than a trifle laboured Indian movie reworks King Lear in present-day London. Life Goes On ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:29Z Insolent, fearful, desolate and touched with the antic brilliance of madness, this Fool becomes a jagged, glittering prism for the unhinged world of “King Lear.” | 'King Lear' : ?King Lear? at the Public Theater - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z Next year, however, there are just two roles on Foucheux’s agenda: King Lear and Grandpa. Dramatic moments at summer camp, both real and imagined 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Wolfgang's final years were marked by persistent demands for him to quit and a renewed dynastic battle reminiscent, and in some ways worthy, of King Lear. Bayreuth's King Lear | Martin Kettle 2010-03-23T09:30:00Z We all know that things will not end well; it’s “King Lear.” Edward St. Aubyn sets aside autobiographical fiction in 'Dunbar' and updates Shakespeare's 'King Lear' 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Anthony Hopkins is ready for his “King Lear” — again. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘RBG’ and ‘King Lear’ 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Instead of asking whether a comic book could be “as valuable” as “King Lear,” we ought to ask how the values of tragedy and romance might collide. A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Question 1: Name the three sisters in King Lear. Brush up your Shakespeare (in Love) 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z Closing the season is Young Jean Lee’s riff on “King Lear” that will involve “Sesame Street.” 15 Summer Theater Festivals (and More) 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Then we boiled it down to “Iceman” and “King Lear.” Passing the Torch: Denzel Washington and Michael B. Jordan 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Told by an Idiot's My Perfect Mind is an exquisite piece of tomfoolery, inspired by Edward Petherbridge's experience of not playing King Lear. My Perfect Mind – review 2013-04-07T13:17:11Z What if you performed 'King Lear' with your own dad? What if you performed 'King Lear' with your own dad? 2013-02-01T01:24:45Z The Donmar Warehouse in London will announce today that it is to follow the National Theatre's example and will be filming King Lear during a performance next February. Sir Derek Jacobi's King Lear to go live at 300 world cinemas 2010-07-29T18:31:00Z That’s the question posed by Sam Mendes’s sweeping and suffocating production of “King Lear,” which opened at the National Theater here last week, with the great Simon Russell Beale in the title role. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z If this isn’t “King Lear” or Chekhov, “Harvest” shows the truth of life as it is lived, growing messier and more complicated as the days dwindle and last chances loom. | 'Harvest': The Family That Stays Together Frays Together 2011-05-06T05:30:05Z It’s hard not to think of that terrible line of King Lear’s: “Howl, howl, howl, howl!” Review: ‘Comfort Dogs’ Explores the Solace of Communing With Canines 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z King Lear: Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Style Invitational Week 1380: Both sides now 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z The play where darkness is most frequently mentioned is one which would have been seen in full daylight: King Lear. Darkness in literature: from the Bible to Joyce 2012-12-31T09:14:54Z It is a role not unlike her recent Broadway work in “King Lear,” who descends into madness. Glenda Jackson returns to screen with ‘Elizabeth Is Missing’ 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z This past weekend, as coronavirus radiated across the country and sent Americans scurrying into their homes, Rosanne Cash tweeted: “Just a reminder that when Shakespeare was quarantined because of the plague, he wrote King Lear.” The Unending Anxiety of Coronavirus Content 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Characters recite lines from “King Lear” so as to share the mad monarch’s rantings about the nature of life and the passage of time. ‘Birthday Candles’ Review: Another Year, Another Cake, Another Profundity 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z King Lear Shakespeare’s tragedy about an aged and ailing monarch. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 12-19: 'Forever Plaid' and more 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z It was as if the heath scene in King Lear had been turned into a whole play, only set in modern-day Brighton, with lots of gratuitous shots of the beach. Rewind TV: The Fear; The Town; A Young Doctor's Notebook; The Secret Life of Rubbish; Imagine... Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me; Inside Claridge's – review 2012-12-09T00:06:09Z He recites lines from King Lear and The Tempest, but the most important one seems to be the one he whispered to his daughter: “these violent delights have violent ends.” The Complete Guide to All Westworld's Many References 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Such an approach would not seem ideal for “King Lear,” which as a study of “unaccommodated man” in a black-hole universe anticipates the bleakness of Samuel Beckett. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ in an Enchanted Setting Along the Hudson River 2013-08-18T21:51:45Z I was just thinking of King Lear and bringing him into the 21st century. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z But this 162-minute transposition of “King Lear” to feudal Japan is the only one of those films in color. Movie Listings for Feb. 26-Mar. 3 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z I loved the glancing acknowledgment of Henry Carr having been “a wonderful Goneril” — one of King Lear’s wicked daughters — at Eton, and the characters’ sartorial tastes also land a laugh or two. Review: ‘Travesties’ and Finding New Depth in Stoppard 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z The Rep's inaugural 1963-64 season opens with Shakespeare's "King Lear," and includes Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," among other works. A look back at 50 years of Seattle Rep 2012-09-28T17:21:06Z “Nothing can protect you from nothing,” Goneril says more than once, echoing the dark chiming use of that word in “King Lear.” 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z The “King Lear Overture” was a scattered 10 minutes. Philip Glass Is Too Busy to Care About Legacy 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Last year, they trod the boards at the Globe, bringing a scything political edge – not to mention a dangerous eye for comedy – to Shakespeare's King Lear. Speak to Belarus Free Theatre 2013-06-11T13:47:00Z No actor has also ever brought out better King Lear's emotional anarchy: I've never forgotten how Wood, having issued the most terrifying threats to Goneril, suddenly rushed up to embrace her. John Wood: an actor who made us see things anew 2011-08-11T12:32:33Z In King Lear, it felt like he was totally on the rack at times. Pete Postlethwaite remembered 2011-01-03T19:30:01Z King Lear: Five days we do allot thee for provision to shield thee from diseases of the world. Style Invitational Week 1380: Both sides now 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Surly and defiant, President Trump was ensconced in the White House, lashing out like King Lear with a cellphone. Barbara W. Tuchman, Folly and the Stream of History 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Anthony Hopkins said that his Titus referenced both King Lear and Hannibal Lecter, another character with outré taste in fine dining. Let It Bleed: The Perverse Influence of ‘Titus Andronicus’ 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Rudin produced “There Will Be Blood,” as well as “King Lear” and “Mockingbird.” In ‘Mockingbird,’ a deaf actor finally gets his wish: Not to be defined solely by deafness 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z She looks to the art of the 17th-century vanitas school of painting, with its obsession with life’s fragility, and to the example of King Lear. Dementia Patients Aren’t in Their ‘Perfect Mind.’ Then Again, Who Is? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z As with King Lear, Job is the victim of malign fate. Paul Bailey's top 10 stories of old age 2011-02-02T11:31:42Z Now I’ve already mentioned, but one of the other mountains is the third time that I play the role of King Lear — and then I want to direct it. André De Shields Isn’t Done With ‘King Lear’ (or ‘Hadestown’) 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Later, in a tart e-mail message, he added, “If a woman can direct ‘King Lear,’ a man can direct ‘Three Women.’ Giving Voice to Sylvia Plath?s Pregnant Women 2010-09-25T05:00:00Z Perhaps you know the story of “King Lear.” You Know About King Lear. A New Novel Tells His Banished Queen’s Tale. 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z To paraphrase Andy Warhol on Coke, no amount of money will allow you to see a better production of King Lear than the student queuing in the rain for returns. Damien Hirst's skull tasteless? That's the point 2011-02-22T16:29:42Z The Edinburgh international festival theatre programme kicks in tomorrow with the Korean Tempest and Wu Hsing-Kuo's one-man King Lear. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-08-12T13:07:17Z Her reply took him by surprise, as did her suggestion that she play King Lear. Glenda Jackson Hopes to Scale Mount Lear in Her Stage Return 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Once, he said, he played Edgar in a production of “King Lear,” directed by Hare and starring Anthony Hopkins in the title role. Bill Nighy, Master of Misdirection 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z She followed that with an oddball meditation on Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” an ambitious aesthetic smackdown with the biggest gun of English literature. | 'We?re Gonna Die': Amid Catchy Choruses, Personal Tales of Life?s Brutal Verities 2011-04-10T21:32:33Z It tells the story of the relationship between Lunga Kunene, a black nurse taking care of Jack Morris, a famous white actor, who is terminally ill, but nonetheless preparing to play King Lear. Stage Royalty Joined, and Separated, by Apartheid 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Still, Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath come immediately to mind, albeit for the narrower category of great literature about awful relationships; no one wants a father like those in “King Lear” or “Daddy.” Kathryn Schulz Doesn’t Count Any Reading Pleasures as Guilty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Depending on which critic or fan you ask, Fox TV’s “Empire” is somewhere between Shakespeare’s drama “King Lear” and Norman Lear’s campy “Good Times.” A real-life Lucious Lyon: The former slave who built a Beale Street “Empire” and transformed Memphis 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z “We used to describe Austin as ‘Mama Rose meets King Lear’ when we were trying to cast it,” said Kent Nicholson, Playwrights Horizons’ director of musical theater/literary associate. Sad and Haunted Girls Who Couldn?t Play Worth a Lick 2011-05-22T00:45:25Z Four years later he set himself the monumental challenge of “King Lear” at the National Theater in London. Ian Holm, Malleable Actor Who Played Lear and a Hobbit, Dies at 88 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z This passage will probably mean little to you readers, but if you come to see our “King Lear,” you will see how Dan’s note has played out. Learning 'Lear': Time to Leave the Nest 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Productions include a “Richard III” staged by the celebrated German director Thomas Ostermeier, featuring puppets and a Richard clad in visible padding, and a new version of “King Lear” directed by Mr. Py. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z AllenSan Diego I had seen and read the last act of “King Lear” so many times that I knew it by heart. Critic?s Notebook: On the Stage, Old Words Are Reborn 2010-12-31T22:25:35Z The theme of “filial ingratitude,” to borrow a phrase from “King Lear,” looms in Fred Schepisi’s dramatically unsteady, blustery if likable film, which was adapted by Judy Morris from the Patrick White novel. Movie Review: ‘The Eye of the Storm,’ With Geoffrey Rush 2012-09-06T22:03:02Z "We are absolutely delighted to announce that this legendary American actor has accepted our invitation to lead the company of King Lear here at Chichester," said Jonathan Church, artistic director at Chichester Festival Theatre. Frank Langella to play King Lear 2013-06-20T10:27:26Z Then came an exhilarating “King Lear” at the Old Vic in 2016, announcing that Ms. Jackson had lost none of her power and verve. Review: Glenda Jackson Gets Her Queen Lear Moment in ‘Three Tall Women’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z A mere professional, like Shakespeare or his colleague and sometime rival Ben Jonson, could never dream of committing masterpieces like “King Lear” or “Macbeth.” Movie Review: ?Anonymous,? by Roland Emmerich - Review 2011-10-27T15:47:42Z Yet like that celebrated downer, “King Lear,” the novel leaves one not just shaken but exalted. ‘Harlequin’s Millions,’ by Bohumil Hrabal This time, he’s appearing not in Shakespeare per se but in the “King Lear”-inspired “The Gods Weep,” the Dennis Kelly play at north London’s Hampstead Theatre through April 3. Review: A Comic Return for Russell Beale 2010-03-23T17:15:00Z It will perform Shakespeare's study of a dictator in decline, "King Lear." The Bard goes global with 37 plays in 37 languages 2011-09-26T23:02:08Z I don’t want to sound self-aggrandizing, but for points of reference, you look at "Hamlet" or "King Lear" — there’s not much redemption. Todd Solondz, patron saint of pessimism 2010-07-23T19:01:00Z Alexander Goehr is telling me about Promised End, his new piece based on Shakespeare's King Lear. Alexander Goehr on his new King Lear opera, Promised End 2010-09-23T21:30:00Z He also returned to the stage – here's a taster of his meaty, urgent stage turn as King Lear at the Young Vic in 2009. Pete Postlethwaite: in clips 2011-01-03T13:25:29Z Though it doesn’t specifically mention the photo I just saw of Calico Critters performing the first scene of “King Lear.” Is This a Livestream I See Before Me? 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z When we began to shelter in place, the social networks were awash with the idea that Shakespeare wrote “King Lear” during a plague quarantine. Perspective | What will post-pandemic fiction look like? The novels that followed 9/11 offer some clues. 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Her performance in this first major Broadway revival helped establish "Gypsy" as the "King Lear" summit for American musical divas. Angela Lansbury's spirit and star power burn as bright as ever 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z “King Lear” has also been absent from the series for a while: its last Shakespeare in the Park staging was in 1973. ArtsBeat: Shakespeare in the Park Lineup: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ and ‘King Lear’ 2014-02-13T19:00:42Z Although Johnson regarded Shakespeare as the greatest modern writer to depict our “general nature,” he preferred Tate’s “King Lear” for the poetic justice of its ending. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z It is a fine introduction to the Gregory Doran production of “King Lear” that is now playing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music by way of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Review: A ‘King Lear’ in Which You Feel for All the Daughters 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Many of the book’s characters are actors — divinely hammy ones, if that may be said about the Yiddish theater — who quote from “Kinig Lir,” the Yiddish version of Shakespeare’s “King Lear.” Review: ‘The Yid,’ Paul Goldberg’s First Novel, Taunts Stalin 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z “Entertaining” is hardly the first word that springs to mind when thoughts turn to “King Lear,” Shakespeare’s profound and merciless tragedy of old age. | 'King Lear': He?s a Grumpy Old Man, but Don?t Dare Run Away 2011-05-06T14:33:07Z When Lucious announces to his sons that he will pick one of them to run the company, Jamal says, “What is this, we ‘King Lear’ now?” ‘Empire,’ a Terrence Howard Drama on Fox 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z I watched an 83-year-old Glenda Jackson unleash the guttural growls of a death metal singer as King Lear. Discount Me In: How I Saw 30 Shows on a Student Budget 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z There is also more than a touch of King Lear in his ravings. Review: Tending the Tempest Within in ‘Peter and the Farm’ 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The theater world, in short, is having a “King Lear” moment — well, actually, a whole bunch of “King Lear” moments. Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ A work such as King Lear, Kermode argues, "subsists in change, by being patient of interpretation". Frank Kermode: a tribute by John Sutherland 2010-08-20T23:22:00Z It was the hearty sound of King Lear’s knights, celebrating a bracing day of deer hunting in elegant Elizabethan phrases. Learning 'Lear': The How-To's of Hub-Bub 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z In May, the company staged King Lear in Belarusian at Shakespeare's Globe to critical acclaim. Actors lobby David Cameron over plight of Belarusian political prisoners 2012-12-18T21:19:01Z One of the most admired and bankable pairings in British theatre, actor Simon Russell Beale and director , will return to the National Theatre in two years' time for a production of King Lear. Winning team 2010-04-23T14:21:00Z Although seldom living up to her name, Savage is the best thing in an evening that lasts almost as long as King Lear, but with fewer laughs. Aladdin: A Wish Come True – review 2012-12-17T12:48:46Z What accounts for the changes in Shakespeare’s writing and the growing intensity, the deepening involvement with mortality, that culminates in “Hamlet” and “King Lear”? Why do these texts seem so mercurial, wild and bottomless? Perspective | Maradona was great, and maybe the greatest. Can we make similar claims about artists? 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Adults familiar with the devastating power of “King Lear” may naturally raise their brows at the idea of the harrowing storm scene’s coming across as hilarious. | 'Nearly Lear': An Answer to a Crying Need: ?King Lear? for Children 2011-01-10T23:30:23Z Kathryn Hunter has already proved herself a wise fool and the best thing about the RSC's latest revival of King Lear. Theatre picks of the week 2010-04-30T23:14:00Z A decade or so ago, my dad went to a production of “King Lear” by himself. A Ghostly Father Sets Off a Cascade of Memories 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z South Korea's Mokhwa Repertory Company transports Shakespeare's "The Tempest" to 5th century Korea with Taoist magic and royal banishment, while Taiwanese actor Wu Hsing-kuo writes, directs and performs in his version of "King Lear." Oriental Shakespeare, Ravi Shankar at Edinburgh festival 2011-03-23T17:46:51Z Beale, about to take on King Lear at the National Theatre, is up for best actor for his role in Radio 3's Copenhagen. Cumberbatch sitcom up for awards 2014-01-08T16:09:33Z We stand there in the warm twilight for two or three minutes, skittishly awaiting Act I, Scene 1 of “King Lear.” 'Learning' Lear: Places, Please, for Opening Night 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Glenda Jackson as King Lear was a good idea. Review | This revival of ‘Grand Hotel’ offers only cold comfort 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z It's great to see Jacobi, fresh from his King Lear triumph, play comedy. Will Paul Andrew Williams be the latest film director to take a TV Trip? 2011-01-11T15:30:35Z Groucho had boned up anxiously for the evening, rereading Eliot, and King Lear as well, just in case. Serious questions about literature ? in quiz form 2011-01-07T11:07:32Z The most recent King Lear was a BBC adaptation earlier this year starring Anthony Hopkins. From the Godfather to Shakespeare’s mad king – Al Pacino takes on Lear 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z One of the most keenly awaited Shakespearean performances of recent times – Sir Derek Jacobi's King Lear – is to be broadcast live in more than 300 cinemas across the world. Sir Derek Jacobi's King Lear to go live at 300 world cinemas 2010-07-29T18:31:00Z These figures do not include a new critically acclaimed play Off Broadway, “Sons of the Prophet,” or the starry revival of “King Lear” now in preview performances at the Public Theater. ArtsBeat Blog: At Broadway Box Office This Fall, the Play's the Thing 2011-10-24T21:24:03Z It has plush leather seats or cozy sofas, beer and wine to wash down your popcorn, and screenings that include current hits, classics and BBC broadcasts like “King Lear.” 36 Hours in Glasgow 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z His vocal acting made his final scene — in which Wotan picks a stubborn old man’s quarrel with the impetuous grandson he loves and loses his power — into a “King Lear”-like tragedy. A New Wotan Reigns in the Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Ring’ 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z For Seattle Shakespeare Company, he staged memorable versions of "Hamlet," "King Lear" and "The Merchant of Venice." ACT names John Langs to associate artistic director post 2012-11-01T20:26:08Z Unlike, say, Deborah Warner’s recent “King Lear” with Glenda Jackson in the West End, their show would feature only women. The Gender’s the Thing: Harriet Walter Plays Shakespeare’s Heroes as Heroines 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Part “King Lear,” part prime-time soap opera, “Monarch” plays like Fox’s hip-hop hit “Empire” in a Stetson. ‘Monarch’ Heralds a New Family Empire, This One With a Texas Twang 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z That morning, I spoke to the “King Lear” company about this whole blog business. Learning 'Lear': Put It In the Blog! 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, we don’t know how our version of “King Lear” will end. Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z But Thone is vivid and heartbreaking in the latter half, in ways that suggest how much Titus was Shakespeare's warm-up for another tragic patriarchal figure, King Lear. Seattle troupe mounts a spooky, lean, all-women 'Titus' 2012-09-13T20:30:07Z This story tells you two things about our production of “King Lear”: Learning 'Lear': The How-To's of Hub-Bub 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Paul Giamatti starred as himself in Cold Souls, undergoing a soul transplant when he struggles to find the necessary depth to play King Lear: the effect was transparently Malkovich Lite. This is the End: why actors love to play themselves 2013-06-06T18:00:00Z And the diminutive In Series opened its first season under a new artistic director, Tim Nelson, with his daring dramatization, which juxtaposed an eight-singer Requiem with excerpts from “King Lear.” Perspective | Best of classical music 2018: Amid the turbulence, moments to savor 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z He directed three of its five shows its first season, including the inaugural production, “King Lear,” which opened in November 1963. Stuart Vaughan, Director and Shakespeare Expert, Dies at 88 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z I was there to congratulate him on his performance as King Lear. Learning 'Lear': We Really Are Putting on a Play 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z They are spare, resonant, sometimes drawing upon or alluding to the writers and works of literature that have sustained Swett: Robert Frost, Sappho, “King Lear.” The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z “Too drawn-out,” ” George Orwell complained of “King Lear,” “too many characters and subplots.” A King Lear Set in India, Wild and Tragic as Ever 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z In a pandemic, apparently some people write “King Lear.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z King Lear Royal Lyceum, Until 16 August Strangely, it is as Lear himself that I find him least beguiling. King Lear ? review 2011-08-14T17:00:03Z Many actors have stepped into the role over the years, each trying to give it his own spin, much as a stage actor might take a fresh crack at King Lear. What Makes a Good Hercule Poirot? (It’s More Than the Little Gray Cells.) 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Look at King Lear, which, if crudely summarized, is basically a clichéd plot — a family drama in which the father has to decide which of his daughters gets the money. “The World Without You” 2012-06-29T20:06:00Z With psychology not being quite a hard science, and literature – even King Lear – not being quite life, a faint air of indeterminacy hovers over the book. Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips – review 2012-06-13T07:00:01Z But this play is not called “Lear’s Fool” but “King Lear,” which brings us to Mr. Waterston. | 'King Lear' : ?King Lear? at the Public Theater - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z “She didn’t even look up from her script — just caught the arrow midair and went back to reading her ‘King Lear.’” The Show Is Fake. The Fandom Is Real. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z He gestures to his own son like a demented King Lear on the heath. Perspective | On a last walk through the National Gallery, I’m reassured by images of an uncertain future 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z He continued to perform onstage throughout much of his career, and two years ago he returned to Liverpool’s Everyman as King Lear. Pete Postlethwaite, an Actor With Broad Range, Dies at 64 2011-01-04T02:45:30Z Which brings us to… “King Lear,” with Greg Hicks, left, in the title role and Geoffrey Freshwater as Gloucester, at the Park Avenue Armory. ArtsBeat Blog: Theater Talkback: The Year in Miscellany 2011-12-15T21:33:31Z Wada was catapulted to stardom by the samurai costumes she created for the 1985 “Ran,” a striking portrayal of bloody intrigue and betrayal inspired by William Shakespeare’s “King Lear.” Reports: Oscar-winning Japanese costume designer Wada dies 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Chakrabarti's play, which ends with the disturbing reversal of Aldridge "whiting up" to play King Lear, uses a theatrical setting, in the way Sartre also did, to examine ideas of identity. Theatre about theatre shows there's no business like show business 2013-03-08T09:30:01Z There’s an avuncular bartender in “Sweat,” portrayed at O.S.F. by Jack Willis, who also originated the role of L.B.J. in “All the Way” and played King Lear a season later. American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Some of the links he makes are beyond tenuous—at one point he compares African elephants to the storm in “King Lear” on the grounds that both are “sublime grey objects”. All the world was his stage 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z He is Jay Gatsby and King Lear at the same time. Empire recap: season two, episode eight – My Bad Parts 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Click image to enlarge We are always told that we should tell the truth – but then it didn't do Cordelia in King Lear much good. Liar, Liar – review 2013-02-18T17:43:11Z “Shakespeare wrote ‘King Lear’ while quarantined by the plague - if he carried on, we can too,” organizers said in a statement. From Colbert to Shakespeare, the show must go on(line) 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z The reminder of never-never land, imagined by JM Barrie as the country where children never grow up and are able to fly, almost banishes the fainter echo of King Lear's last speech. Poem of the week: Otterspool Prom by Peter Robinson 2013-02-18T11:19:21Z People are always reminding you, “Shakespeare wrote ‘King Lear’ when he was under plague quarantine.” Zoom Galas and Vlogging 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z In a protean acting career, he played King Lear and other Shakespearean roles and appeared in countless television shows, from “The Twilight Zone” to “Gunsmoke” to “Dynasty.” Theodore Bikel, singer, activist and Oscar-nominated actor, dies at 91 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z The reviews of “King Lear” were possibly even worse; Cordelia was played by a ballet dancer with her mouth taped shut. A French Theater Impresario, Dressed for Excess 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z It’s worth noting that after the Restoration, audiences couldn’t stomach the tragedy of King Lear. Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z "It's like saying you never heard of Macbeth or King Lear," he said. Husband and wife behind 'The Bible' miniseries 2013-03-01T16:17:08Z Aldridge, who will be played by Adrian Lester in Lolita Chakrabarti's Red Velvet, was considered one of the great Shakespearean actors of his day, having played Romeo, Hamlet, Othello and King Lear. Rare painting of Ira Aldridge discovered in garage 2012-09-26T12:22:08Z For Branagh he took on roles including King Lear, Malvolio in "Twelfth Night" and the buffoon Bottom in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." British actor Richard Briers dies at 79 2013-02-18T14:34:08Z This spring, “King Lear” will be joined by Eugene O’Neill’s nostalgic comedy “Ah, Wilderness!” this weekend and the musical “Man of La Mancha,” which opens April 1. How Pasadena's A Noise Within theater troupe builds a future on the past 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z That word belongs in King Lear, not Sian Lloyd's mouth. Oi! Celeb chef! Stop saying 'For me' 2013-01-01T10:00:00Z I’ve discovered that, just like me, all of these splendid actors connect with “King Lear” in ways that are deeply personal to them. Learning 'Lear': A King's Gotta Eat 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Hurt returned periodically to the stage, with the Royal Shakespeare Company and elsewhere, but he focused chiefly on a screen career that encompassed adaptations of “King Lear,” horror films, fantasies and westerns. John Hurt, British actor who played desperate, eccentric characters, dies at 77 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Lithgow's gray beard was in full bloom for his role in the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of "King Lear," which opened in Central Park a few weeks ago. John Lithgow and Alfred Molina find that 'Love Is Strange' 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z West is regarded as one of the great stage actors of his generation, having played King Lear four times in four different decades. Prunella Scales and Timothy West: Dementia won't break our 60-year love affair 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Shortly after being banished, a disguised Kent flatters King Lear by telling him that he has that quality that leads other men to follow. Commentary: Robert Brustein and the double-edged sword of authority in criticism 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z The celebratory season will include the 2018 adaptation of King Lear starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, Shakespeare Live! from the RSC, and a semi-fictionalised comic drama on Radio 4 about the creation of the First Folio. David Tennant celebrates 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z He went on to appear regularly at the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company in roles including King Lear, Othello, Mark Anthony and Volpone. Sir Michael Gambon: A career in pictures 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Instead, she took on the most challenging role in the dramatic canon: King Lear. Appreciation: Glenda Jackson, formidable English talent who helped change contemporary acting's tone 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z She returned to acting after leaving Parliament and had some of her most acclaimed roles, including the title character in Shakespeare’s “King Lear.” Two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson, who mixed acting with politics, dies at 87 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z And, in 2016 - a full quarter of a century after last treading the boards - took on the role of King Lear at the Old Vic. Glenda Jackson obituary: 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z The Guardian's Lucy Mangan referenced Shakespeare's King Lear and Macbeth, adding: "It was Succession at its finest. And that, slime puppies, is saying something." Succession: Critics praise 'perfect, brutal' finale 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Part of what makes this modern-dress “King Lear” — whose run at the Klein has been extended three times — so viscerally exciting are the surgical cuts to the script. Shakespeare Theatre trimmed ‘King Lear’ — and made it a box office champ 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z But Jackson returned to New York the following year in a different production of “King Lear,” this one unsteadily directed by auteur Sam Gold. Appreciation: Glenda Jackson, formidable English talent who helped change contemporary acting's tone 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Established as a film star in Japan and Hong Kong, he tested his skills by starring in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1999 production of “King Lear,” which he calls “the biggest challenge of my life.” The three MVPs that take Keanu-led 'John Wick 4' to new action heights 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z For all that “Succession” has been compared to “King Lear,” the parallels have thus far been imperfect: Logan doesn’t give away his power, nor does he rail against the elements, impoverished and betrayed. Review | ‘Succession’ stops pulling punches in its final season 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Gilman recognized that what Sophocles was pursuing in “Oedipus Rex” and Shakespeare in “King Lear,” Chekhov was similarly exploring in “The Three Sisters” and Beckett in “Waiting For Godot.” Commentary: Richard Gilman, the complicated subject of a new memoir, helped raise the bar for theater criticism 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z They wanted to create a “King Lear” that percolated like a thriller. Shakespeare Theatre trimmed ‘King Lear’ — and made it a box office champ 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z I would later see Jackson perform in that misguided production of “King Lear.” Appreciation: Glenda Jackson, formidable English talent who helped change contemporary acting's tone 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z When it comes to “King Lear,” which runs through April 8 at the Klein Theatre, both men emphasize that the movement in the production should augment William Shakespeare’s words, not overwhelm them. A marriage of movement and acting in Shakespeare Theatre’s ‘King Lear’ 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Richard Bausch’s new novel, ‘Playhouse,’ reflects his lifelong fixations on ‘King Lear,’ anxiety and lessons learned in classrooms and cocktail parties. If you like piña coladas, you might enjoy Rupert Holmes' new cozy mystery 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z While “King Lear” is, Bausch notes, the novel’s MacGuffin, the vehicle for exploring the toil and trouble of his own cast, it is a play that inspires great passion in the author. How Richard Bausch learned to stop worrying and trust his instincts 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z When the adult brothers are feuding, Charles begins to sound like something of a Shakespearean figure himself, King Lear in tweed, begging his sons not to make his old age a misery. Spare review: The weirdest book ever written by a royal 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z But the Wallis has plunged me back to depths I haven’t experienced since the Beverly Hills venue’s ghastly production of “King Lear” in the spring. Review: If the Razzies included theater, 'Invincible’ would be one of 2022's big winners 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z The pedestals the powerful and the famous stand upon — and believe are immovable — disintegrate, leaving them like King Lear, naked on the heath. Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z In the opening scene of William Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” the titular character rewards flatterers and banishes those who dare to tell him the truth. Opinion | Trump calls to mind a modern, farcical King Lear 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z “The Family Game” is both sharply modern and timeless, with strains of King Lear, Dickens and P.D. Review | 5 new thrillers and mysteries deliver the best kind of tension 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Even Shakespeare wrestled with the moral implications of unprovoked insecticide: “As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods,” says the newly blinded Earl of Gloucester in “King Lear.” Opinion | Smush that spotted lanternfly. Or don’t. 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z But a radical revival of “King Lear,” staged for the Royal Shakespeare Company in London in 1962, was more significant. Peter Brook, Celebrated Stage Director of Scale and Humanity, Dies at 97 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z While a careless modernization of “King Lear” may undermine Shakespeare, as my colleague Charles McNulty has revealed, in opera getting away with murder can be the point. Commentary: Why two theatrical extravaganzas bode well for the state of opera in L.A. 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z The bloody mess at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, where a lunatic production of “King Lear” is running riot, is shocking to the sensibility. Review: In striving to be modern, the Wallis makes a mockery of 'King Lear' 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z But, as with his catastrophic “King Lear” with Glenda Jackson on Broadway three years ago, his “Macbeth” amounts to a puzzling textual wrestling match in which the director himself gets pinned. Review | A bountiful Broadway season ends with laughs, thanks to ‘POTUS’ 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z So it would’ve been nice to have written “King Lear,” but instead I wrote “Good Omens 2,” which definitely has more jokes than “King Lear.” Neil Gaiman on book bans and the secret to a good book-to-film adaptation 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z King Lear appreciates his Fool, but in real life, dictators are notoriously allergic to comedy. In Ukraine, humor has become a weapon of war 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z It’s as if King Lear, on the verge of dividing his kingdom, changed his mind and decided to stick around a while longer, while his kids jockey for position or plot coups or pick flowers. The 75 best TV shows on HBO Max right now, according to our experts 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z The ambition behind this so-called radical reinvention of “King Lear” is worthy of praise, but the Wallis has bitten off more than it can artistically chew. Review: In striving to be modern, the Wallis makes a mockery of 'King Lear' 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Some sources called it the bond “King Lear.” ‘The Bond King’ Traces the Arc of a Pioneering Investor 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z Nobody is complaining that “King Lear” was done with a completely diverse cast or set in a different time period. 'West Side Story’s' Ariana DeBose makes the case against 'ethnically ambiguous' 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Just as Akira Kurosawa turned “King Lear” into the grand epic “Ran,” he chiseled the uncanny “Throne of Blood” out of “Macbeth.” Which 'Macbeth' is for you? Depends. How sparse or how bloody do you want it? 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Akira Kurosawa’s “Throne of Blood,” his beguiling 1957 film spun in part from “Macbeth,” and “Ran,” his majestic 1985 epic drawn from “King Lear,” have the distinction of being autonomous movie masterpieces. What makes Joel Coen's Shakespeare unique: His 'Macbeth' is haunted by other movies 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Indeed, there’s some speculation that the earliest productions of “King Lear” engaged in the same double casting. Review: In striving to be modern, the Wallis makes a mockery of 'King Lear' 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z |
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