| 单词 | Lear |
| 例句 | “We’re experiencing a transition—from a town to a city,” said I. David Porras, a developer who tooled around in a Lear jet with red leather seats and painted black on the outside. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z On October 28, Washington climbed aboard a coach and headed north, accompanied by Tobias Lear and a valet. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z King Lear loses his mind with what we, in modern times, would call Alzheimer’s. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “Do you remember that bit in King Lear?' said the Savage at last. “ Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Echoes persisted of the 1986 crash, when the area had become a scavenger hunt for repossessed Lear jets, Mercedeses, mobile homes, oil rigs, ranches, and two-bedroom houses with walls so thin they seemed translucent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Initially his wife was against building it, but Giebel pushed it because it was a wonderful symbol in a part of the country where subtlety was owning an eight-seater prop instead of a Lear. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In the spring we studied King Lear and Hamlet. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Whisk, the cathedrals; whisk, whisk, King Lear and the Thoughts of Pascal. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to tell him,” Clevinger insisted, as the two of them sat high in the reviewing stands looking down on the auxiliary parade-ground at Lieutenant Scheisskopf raging back and forth like a beardless Lear. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In the late 1960s, the screenwriter Norman Lear produced a television sitcom pilot for a show called All in the Family. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z 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 From an early age Lear’s draftsmanship could be breathtaking, and he soon earned a name for himself with gorgeous pictures of parrots and plants. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Seeing these performances – along with Paul Scofield’s Lear two years earlier – was what made me begin to think that I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre. 'This is the best moment of my life,' he said, lying in the bath: Ian Holm remembered 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z 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 Not “King Lear,” which had tantalized Verdi for years. Music Review: Finding High Spirits in Shakespeare 2011-05-09T21:42:29Z 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's a sly and ticklish satire on the constant quest for the new that takes its inspiration from The Emperor's New Clothes and Edward Lear's Dong With A Luminous Nose. This week's new theatre 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z A gorgeous retelling of Lear unfolds through Arthur’s flashbacks and Kirsten’s attempt to stay alive. Sci-fi & fantasy by Emily St. John Mandel, Robert Jackson Bennett, Lauren Beukes 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 "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 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 Lear said he was not upset that Trump chose not to attend. Without Trump, Kennedy Center honors Lionel Richie and Gloria Estefan 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z 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 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 She said she had recently spoken with Norman Lear, the legendary television producer, about his experience creating the character Archie Bunker on “All in the Family” in the 1970s. Taymor Tries to Reclaim a Reputation 2011-06-19T22:02:45Z 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 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 Color and play are important to Lear, but so are the mechanics of illusion. In the galleries: simplicity, spontaneity and the beauty of imperfection 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z But, as Lear descends into madness, Hicks moves one. King Lear ? review 2011-03-11T00:02:03Z Falls says that he gets why “Lear” is done so often: he considers it “the greatest play in the English language.” Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ Director Lear Lear deBessonet says the atypical casting approach was inspired by the desire to put a fresh stamp on one of Shakespeare's most frequently produced plays. Aging Fairies Take the Stage in Shakespeare in the Park's A Midsummer Night's Dream 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z It's just that many wish it were as savage as a Queen Lear. David Thomson on Helen Mirren 2010-10-14T22:00:00Z 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 This “Lear” signals one theatrical inevitability that was worth the wait. On the London Stage: Derek Jacobi's Close-Up 'King Lear' 2010-12-14T15:50:02Z 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 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 In the opener, legendary sitcom producer Norman Lear talks about his life and career. TV listings: Weekend of Feb. 27-Feb. 28, 2016 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z “A Different World” didn’t create the topical sitcom — Norman Lear blazed that trail in the 1970s — but the show was groundbreaking in its own way. How ‘A Different World’ dealt with the L.A. riots and set the stage for a more political TV 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z I play Lear, of course, and my knights are played by eight members of our ensemble. Learning 'Lear': The How-To's of Hub-Bub 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z “This was the heath in ‘Lear,’ ” he said, and then, “This was the forest of letters in ‘As You Like It.’ ” Parks to Parking Lots: All the City?s a Stage 2011-06-02T12:00:00Z 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 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 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 “Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little,” Lear begs, and Mr. Jacobi said that when he delivers the line, he thinks of a loss in his own past. For Derek Jacobi, Now Is the Time for a Certain Role 2011-04-22T23:30:23Z He contemplated settings of “Hamlet” and “King Lear.” Verdi’s Shakespeare Resonates Across Italian Opera Houses 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z 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 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 In retirement, Mr. Lear, now remarried, savors his family. Review: About Norman Lear, Who Gave Us Archie Bunker 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z 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 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 Lee, whose birth name is Elizabeth Lear, is an unstable actress in Hollywood who has aged out of ingénue roles. A Widow Takes Her Grown Kids on a Cruise. What Could Go Wrong? 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z 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 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 Lear and her late husband Thomas Stewart, the acclaimed bass-baritone, settled in the Maryland suburbs near Washington after singing together for decades around the world. Opera star soprano Evelyn Lear dies at 86 in Md. 2012-07-03T20:49:20Z In the wake of his first three successes, Lear arrived at his office one day to find it occupied by members of the Black Panthers. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z She also enjoyed augmenting her poetry with scratchy, child-like drawings, such that “All the Poems; Stevie Smith” — a definitive collection — looks as if it were decorated by Edward Lear or James Thurber. Michael Dirda on the misunderstood poet Stevie Smith 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Jonathan Lear is a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z The lavishness turns quickly into horror — Godwin gives us buckets of blood unasked for in the original — and then into a presentiment of Lear on the heath. Review: Shakespeare’s ‘Timon’ Gets an Occupy Athens Makeover 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z “I fear I am not in my perfect mind,” Lear confesses to his last, lingering companion, the Fool. Dementia Patients Aren’t in Their ‘Perfect Mind.’ Then Again, Who Is? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z 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 But where Edward Bond's Lear was prompted by unhappiness with the "total resignation" of Shakespeare's tragedy, Dennis Kelly translates its action to the world of corporate greed. The Gods Weep 2010-03-18T22:45:00Z Mr. Pennington makes it clear that Lear’s subconscious never stops slapping him in rebuke from that moment on. Theater Review: ‘King Lear,’ With Michael Pennington, Opens in Brooklyn 2014-03-28T02:00:01Z Lear was apparently intrigued but wanted to see a script; Sondheim and Lapine were only peddling the idea. 'Into the Woods' reunion shows Sondheim can still cast a spell 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z The agreement is also another confirmation of the status of Chuck Lorre as the most successful creator of comedy on television working today, putting him in the company of all-time comedy hitmakers like Norman Lear. CBS Signs Up ‘Big Bang’ for Three More Years 2014-03-12T17:16:05Z And Anthony Hopkins stars in a streaming “King Lear.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘RBG’ and ‘King Lear’ 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z By the time the descriptive-resistant performer Amanda Lear made an appearance, in a shiny pink bathing suit, there were no words, just applause. Fashion Review: At Paris Shows, Welcome Touches of Levity 2012-10-02T01:46:42Z Yet a part of me couldn’t help wondering if this Lear wasn’t mad by craft, like Hamlet, waiting to exact revenge. Theater Review: Frank Langella, Roaring at Defiance in ‘King Lear’ 2014-01-17T03:00:02Z 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 For someone whose most enduring contribution to popular culture might be the image of a husband and wife sitting at a piano and singing about the good old days, Norman Lear is not particularly nostalgic. Norman Lear’s Memoir, ‘Even This I Get to Experience’ 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z 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 BERNHARDT/HAMLET The choice to cast a woman as Prospero or Lear, while intriguing, isn’t groundbreaking on its own nowadays. 72 Plays and Musicals to See This Fall and Beyond 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z “Which of you,” Lear demands, “shall we say doth love us most?” Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Lear and Stewart were two leading American singers of their generation who, with the help of the Wagner Society, worked with more than 75 singers over 12 years. Mezzo Dolora Zajick possesses enthusiasm as big as her voice 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z And perhaps they do; among the uniformly excellent actors, Brown, as Barbara, stands out for her devastating portrait of dementia, Queen Lear in a shelter instead of on a moor. Review: Holding Hands With the Homeless, in ‘Love’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Like such entertainments, this “Lear” requires you to project any finer shades of feeling yourself. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z 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 Lear, even at his least unhinged, is anything but comforting. Review: In ‘Head of Passes,’ Phylicia Rashad Is a Matriarch With Worries 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z It yields some startling moments, as when Lear and his retinue announce their arrival at Goneril's house by simply bursting through the wall. King Lear ? review 2011-03-11T00:02:03Z "We'd love to explore it," Lear's writing partner Brent Miller told Salon, "but have yet to officially pitch it to our partners at ABC and Sony." Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z 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 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 Both patriarchs realize and regret their folly, but only after ordeals that involve Lear enduring the least effective storm scene I have ever seen staged, and Gloucester getting enucleated. Review: A ‘King Lear’ in Which You Feel for All the Daughters 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z 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 What if, in that babble of sound, the audience sensed Lear’s scorn for the mismanagement of Goneril’s and Albany’s estate? Learning 'Lear': The How-To's of Hub-Bub 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Lear shared that observation with Salon shortly before his 100th birthday on July 27, 2022. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Partnering with Lear and her co-showrunner Mike Royce felt comfortable, and she knew they would protect her story along the way. TV revivals and inclusive casting: An opportunity that can’t just be skin-deep 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Progressive-leaning festivalgoers, for instance, will undoubtedly rally behind “Knock Down the House,” a documentary from Rachel Lears that follows insurgent political candidates, including Ocasio-Cortez, the newly elected Democratic congresswoman from Queens. ‘Layered, Intense and Authentic’: Sundance Lineup Is Announced 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z These two are absconders from responsibility, a pair of croaking ravens, one part Chaplin and two parts Lear. Two Lifetime Crooks Wait for a Missing Daughter, With Shades of Beckett 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z 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 “It didn’t take but a second to realize she was the one,” Lear wrote in an email. In ‘With Love,’ Gloria Calderón Kellett Comes Home for the Holidays 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z 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 One day when Lear was around seven years old, his father took him to a field near Highgate in north London. Two hundred years of nonsense 2012-05-22T07:39:49Z For whatever you think of Shakespeare, “Lear” might not be the best place to start if your primary demand of a play is that you shouldn’t have to work too hard. Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ As Norman Lear later recalled, he knew that “Maude would be absolutely torn, but that she’d come down on the side, given her age, of not having a child.” TV’s twisted abortion history: How the conversation changed about choice 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z The catalyst for the Lear opera was a dream. Alexander Goehr on his new King Lear opera, Promised End 2010-09-23T21:30:00Z 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 Mr. Lear’s first Emmy win in 46 years, when “All in the Family” won best comedy in 1973. ‘Game of Thrones’ Dominates at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z He also realised that he wanted to do Lear for real. Anthony Hopkins: ‘Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Some theatergoers may regret the absence of an unconditionally volcanic Lear, who struts and rants his hours upon the stage in ways that force us into awe-struck submission. Theater Review: ‘King Lear,’ With Michael Pennington, Opens in Brooklyn 2014-03-28T02:00:01Z Lear said he was not upset that Trump chose not to attend. Without Trump, Kennedy Center honors Lionel Richie and Gloria Estefan 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z He mentions legendary US sitcom writer Norman Lear, who said he goes to sleep each night “anticipating and delighting in the great taste” of his morning coffee. 'The shipping forecast, with jokes': Joe Pera's brilliantly boring comedy 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z But this “Hercules,” directed by the Public Works founder Lear deBessonet, is also big in the sense of spectacular, expanding the palette from previous seasons in ways that are both exciting and also mildly worrisome. Review: Public Works Finds the Heroism in ‘Hercules’ 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Once you make the comparison between Lear and Trump, the similarities begin to line up like attendants at court. Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z 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 Do you think writing about your traumatic family history prepared you in some ways to recast Lear? Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z 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 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 Fortunately, Jackson’s portrayal grows in power as Lear’s egotistical indignation turns to sorrowful contemplation. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z 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 In fact, his Max had more than a touch of Lear. Ian Holm, Malleable Actor Who Played Lear and a Hobbit, Dies at 88 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z “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 Still, as generations have acknowledged, “How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!” For the art lover, the naturalist, the child in your life, a new book on Edward Lear 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z 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 "We need to understand each other at the present moment," Lear said, sharing his vision for contemporary entertainment. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 Yet it was art, not poetry, that gave Lear hope of a career in his youth. There Once Was a Man Who Felt Lonely: A Biographer Considers Edward Lear’s Art and Its Sources 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Lear, who had roiled network waters the year before with the topically driven CBS sitcom “All in the Family,” said serendipity led to “Sanford and Son.” ‘Sanford and Son’ at 50, ‘double-edged’ Black sitcom pioneer 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z For the record it was: “@JohnLithgow as Lear tonight: amazing. Shakespeare: not good. No stakes, not relatable. I think I’m realizing: Shakespeare sucks.” Ira Glass’ “Shakespeare sucks” redemption: Fixing TED talks, public radio, and dystopia for millennials 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z The tribal hatred that Keach’s Lear unleashed after he dismantled his federated state and divvied it among his daughters, served as kindling for the play’s savagery. Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ The great revelations in Mr. Jackson’s generally unsurprising “Lear” come from watching its star translate the reflexes of tyranny into different keys. Theater Review: Frank Langella, Roaring at Defiance in ‘King Lear’ 2014-01-17T03:00:02Z Mr. Jacobi does this, he explained, by establishing Lear in that pivotal opening scene as petulant, temperamental, capricious, irrational. For Derek Jacobi, Now Is the Time for a Certain Role 2011-04-22T23:30:23Z This season will be the first under Lear deBessonet, the new Encores! artistic director. New York City Center to Revive a Pair of Musicals About Black Lives 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z 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 “We met with him and came back to L.A. sky high” about creating a Foxx-centered sitcom, Lear said in an email exchange. ‘Sanford and Son’ at 50, ‘double-edged’ Black sitcom pioneer 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Until recently only younger actors dared to play the role of Lear. The King’s the Thing, Not the Play, for an Actor Who Would Be Lear 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z 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 “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 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 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 Both the king and the president are known for playing loyalty games: Lear with his daughters, Trump with his minions. It’s Time to Turn the Page on the Trump-Shakespeare Comparisons 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z 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 Considering that Shakespeare wrote these words in an era when a person’s average life span was about 45 years, he clearly intended Lear to be as old as Methuselah. Learning 'Lear': Feeling the Pain 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Their relationships are thrown into further turmoil by a prophecy from Innis Lear, the magical nation to their north: “The dragon will burn, the lion will break and the wolf will choose the end.” Visit These Science-Fiction Worlds to Make Sense of Our Own 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z During our hour-long conversation in a noisy restaurant in lower Manhattan, Lear arrived about an observation about the central role of Jewish humor in American comedy that he said he’d never had before. Norman Lear sits down with Salon: “Trump is the middle finger of the American right hand” 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z 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 When Lear said, “When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools,” the declaration cut me as if I were hearing it for the first time. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ in an Enchanted Setting Along the Hudson River 2013-08-18T21:51:45Z To make money, the two tried to sell to TV producer Norman Lear the idea of a musical special gathering together sitcom characters in a hospital setting, with TV doctors tending to the various emergencies. 'Into the Woods' reunion shows Sondheim can still cast a spell 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z 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 It’s easy to see how he drew on this for Lear. Anthony Hopkins: ‘Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Much of the enjoyment of this "Lear" comes from the playful logistics of having a small cast populate the world of this sprawling play. Globe's compact 'King Lear,' at the Broad, lacks needed heft 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z This story has been corrected to quote Norman Lear as saying “Bless you, thank you all. To be continued,” not “Bless you all, thank you. Let me continue.” TV comedy greats take a bow, make ’em laugh at ceremony 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z At the end of the ceremony, Murphy returned to the stage to give the special awards to Lear and Alda. Alda, Lear honored at 40th International Emmys 2012-11-20T12:54:13Z And now, the Golden Globes will honor Lear with its TV special achievement trophy. Golden Globes to honor legendary TV producer Norman Lear 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Lear, the creator of “All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons” and “Sanford and Son,” has been having a bit of resurgence lately. For Carl Reiner and His Fellow Nonagenarians, Death Can Wait 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z After being paired for a reading of “Lear” at D.C.’s instructional Theatre Lab, they continued occasional lunches just to talk about the play. Rick Foucheux paints a possible stage exit with an intimate ‘King Lear’ 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Wade, Lear produced an episode of "Maude" in which the title character — unexpectedly pregnant at 47 years old – decides to get an abortion. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z 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 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 In Lear you find humour but also pathos. Two hundred years of nonsense 2012-05-22T07:39:49Z As for social statements about law enforcement, a new study from the social justice non-profit Color of Change and the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center's Media Impact Project beg to differ. Are crime shows slowing justice reform? Here's the insidious storytelling bias miseducating viewers 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z Edward Lear is the other great master of Victorian nonsense. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z He sang Mozart's and Verdi's operas as well as oratorios, song and contemporary pieces such as Reimann's Lear. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was a revolutionary performer 2012-05-21T18:08:47Z That’s when she booked a meeting with Norman Lear, the acclaimed sitcom creator and an expert at sneaking critical social issues into friendly half-hour formats. In ‘With Love,’ Gloria Calderón Kellett Comes Home for the Holidays 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z 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 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 "Comedy expresses the foolishness of the human condition," said Norman Lear. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z The resulting ad campaign was immensely successful, earning ample press coverage, airtime on the nightly news, and high-profile interviews for Lear. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Years later, as Lear in a wheelchair, he “frisbeed” his metal crown into the first row at the National Theater, injuring an audience member. Brian Cox Takes Stock of His Eventful Life on Stage and Screen 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z 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 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 As an adult, Mr. Lear said, he did not feel a need to satisfy authority figures or worry, “What would he think?” Norman Lear’s Memoir, ‘Even This I Get to Experience’ 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Television icon Norman Lear is finally being awarded with a Kennedy Center Honor at the age of 95. Norman Lear doesn’t want to be honored by Donald Trump 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z 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 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 In our time, the play’s “arduousness,” I think, was most successfully mitigated by a director who found an analogous moment for “Lear” in contemporary history. Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ The madness into which Lear descended seemed as if it were a mutating virus, manifesting itself in other characters as a bloodthirsty vengeance that had been suppressed in the country’s long-simmering ethnic hostilities. Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ 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 “Daphne’s Dive,” which opened at the Signature Theater on Sunday, feels at times like a throwback to television comedies of an earlier era, the politically engaged Norman Lear years. Review: ‘Daphne’s Dive,’ Where Everybody Knows You’re Broke 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Directed by Lear deBessonet, the production is the inaugural offering of Public Works, which brings together a diverse network of community organizations and performance groups to create free theater by and for New Yorkers. Theater Review: ‘The Tempest,’ at the Delacorte, Enlists 200 New Yorkers 2013-09-09T20:15:13Z So I ask him: in the name of accuracy, shouldn't the RSC cast a learning-disabled actor as Touchstone, say, or Lear's Fool? All the King's Fools: 'Disability is deep in comedy's DNA' 2011-02-24T10:18:28Z 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 Ms. Barr said network comedies have largely abandoned Mr. Lear’s spirit of social consciousness, leaving cable and streaming series to carry on this tradition. Norman Lear’s Memoir, ‘Even This I Get to Experience’ 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z 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 Although the bulk of Lear's work as a television writer and producer was done by the mid 1980s, the shows he created remain relevant even to the present day. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Like Lear, Beatrix Potter was equally accomplished with pen or brush and, like him too, much of her life was characterized by hard work, melancholy and the search for love. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z 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 That word belongs in King Lear, not Sian Lloyd's mouth. Oi! Celeb chef! Stop saying 'For me' 2013-01-01T10:00:00Z 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 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 And here he is quite superb in the central mad scenes, taking us inside Lear's tortured mind without diminishing the king's residual moments of cruelty. King Lear - review 2010-12-08T00:05:00Z Lear is one of the great Shakespearean roles. Sir Derek Jacobi's King Lear to go live at 300 world cinemas 2010-07-29T18:31:00Z 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 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 But it is Jacobi's Lear that drives the production. King Lear - review 2010-12-08T00:05:00Z He also founded several other non-profits to promote thoughtful citizenship, including the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication. Golden Globes to honor legendary TV producer Norman Lear 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Russell Beale, who played a heartbreaking Hamlet at the National in 2000 – arguably a touch too old for the role at 40 – will be a slightly youthful Lear at 52. Winning team 2010-04-23T14:21:00Z 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 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 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 I mentioned Lear earlier, but the more obvious prototype for this character is Job, the archetypal man of faith brought low by relentless affliction. Review: In ‘Head of Passes,’ Phylicia Rashad Is a Matriarch With Worries 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z For a long time my answer to the question, “Who should play Lear?” was assured: Morgan Freeman. Searching for the next King Lear: A critic shares his casting notes 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z 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 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 “There’s a PTSD, in terms of the deep starvation for representation that my community has,” she remembered telling Lear. In ‘With Love,’ Gloria Calderón Kellett Comes Home for the Holidays 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Only Jay O. Sanders’s staunchly loyal Earl of Kent and Steven Boyer, as Lear’s Fool, portrayed as a scared and sullen adolescent, suggest a genuine relationship with the demented king they serve. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z But Lear threatened to boycott the event over his opposition to Trump, and other artists expressed unease with the idea of meeting the president. Kennedy Center Honors for L.L. Cool J, Gloria Estefan, Norman Lear 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Something in his proud frailty recalls King Lear on the heath. Krapp's Last Tape – review 2012-08-26T17:00:01Z Thomas Adès was working on his opera of The Tempest at the time we were working on Lear, and Frank and I saw it. Alexander Goehr on his new King Lear opera, Promised End 2010-09-23T21:30:00Z The overemphasis, he says, has masked the fact that “Lear” is really an ensemble piece — “an epic journey into the heart of darkness.” Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ 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 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 This heartwarming multicamera sitcom, a modern take on Norman Lear’s 1970s classic, returns for Season 3. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ and ‘One Day at a Time’ 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z “Nearly Lear” boils Shakespeare’s plot down to its basic bones, concentrating on the conflict between Lear and his wicked daughters, Regan and Goneril. | 'Nearly Lear': An Answer to a Crying Need: ?King Lear? for Children 2011-01-10T23:30:23Z 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 Playing Lear, he said, was “like climbing Everest with no oxygen.” Ian Holm, Malleable Actor Who Played Lear and a Hobbit, Dies at 88 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z 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 In the modest, magnificent work of Edward Lear, we hear those voices reaching toward a statement they will never not make, an endearment they will never not offer, a promise they will never not keep. There Once Was a Man Who Felt Lonely: A Biographer Considers Edward Lear’s Art and Its Sources 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z "He is a mensch and a warm human being," said Montgomery, who praised Lear's "gut sense of right and wrong, and his gut sense of what the Constitution means, and what is important about America." Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z 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 Lear is currently working on a comedy series for Netflix and hosting a podcast. LL Cool J becomes the first rapper to be Kennedy Center Honors recipient 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Brooks scheduled his shows around his daughters’ school and extracurricular activities, using a private Lear jet provided by Wynn to allow him to keep his commitment to his children. Garth Brooks poised for concert comeback in Chicago 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z 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 In Tate’s treatment, Lear survives at play’s end and his daughter Cordelia — whose body he bears onstage, in one of theater’s most celebrated scenes — is also spared; she even marries Edgar! Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ 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 I am lucky in that my relationship to Hamlet – and Cleopatra and Lear and Rosalind and Macbeth – isn’t limited to the page. ArtsBeat Blog: Theater Talkback: Who Wrote Shakespeare? Who Cares? 2011-10-27T15:42:53Z 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 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 July 27: TV producer Norman Lear is 92. Celeb birthdays for the week of July 27-Aug. 2 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z 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 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 Last weekend I saw a one-man show called “Trump Lear” in a flyspecked grotty grotto of a theater on St. Marks Place. Hard Truths or Easy Targets? Confronting the Summer of Trump Onstage 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z In the 1970s, when Norman Lear was revolutionizing prime time with such politically charged sitcoms such as “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons,” Mr. Marshall deliberately offered light, often nostalgic family entertainment. Garry Marshall, creator of TV’s ‘Happy Days,’ director of ‘Pretty Woman,’ dies 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z 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 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 Allusions to English literature — “Lear,” “Tom Jones” — give way to a shot of the mouse puppet Topo Gigio on Italian TV. Review: ‘Trust’ Is Flashy but Ephemeral 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Another working class family comedy got more attention this year, but in its second season, the Norman Lear reboot continued to be one of the best shows on television. A feel-good cheat sheet to survive 2018: Life-affirming TV, movies, podcasts and more 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z 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 “I don’t wake up in the morning to be old,” Lear says. Norman Lear put his foot down — and Trump’s White House flinched 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z At his most nihilistic, Burton would quote Lear at himself, contemptuously: "Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art." Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter: being Burton and Taylor 2013-07-13T08:00:00Z 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 The only person who fully commands our sympathy is Lear’s Fool. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z 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 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 At 90, Lear noticed that women started saying he was cute. Norman Lear put his foot down — and Trump’s White House flinched 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z And he said: “Let’s do ‘Lear’ five years from now.” Passing the Torch: Denzel Washington and Michael B. Jordan 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z 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 “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 He consequently had a great Lear in him. Searching for the next King Lear: A critic shares his casting notes 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z It does take place in Pondicherry, India, and the director — a male character pointedly named Lear — has indeed gone off the deep end, cavorting about town naked and desecrating the local statue of Gandhi. Review: ‘A Room in India’ Overflows With Astonishing Visions 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z On the other hand, most Lears are too young for the part. Too old for Beatrice and Benedick – or much ado about nothing? 2012-12-05T12:49:32Z We met in 1968, when I was giving the first performance of a solo theatre piece about Lear. Vivien Noakes obituary 2011-03-04T16:06:57Z Even before he had a second, more serious attack in the hospital two days later, Mr. Petherbridge said he knew: “I wasn’t going to be able to do Lear, no question.” The King’s the Thing, Not the Play, for an Actor Who Would Be Lear 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Now I really understand because I’m as old as Lear. Anthony Hopkins: 'Every day I think about quitting' 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z As much as I avoided “Being Mortal,” though, I don’t stay away from “Lear.” A Ghostly Father Sets Off a Cascade of Memories 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z The Folger’s “Lear,” a touring version from Shakespeare’s Globe — the National’s neighbor on London’s South Bank — reveals that as long as textual and technical fundamentals are securely handled, size doesn’t much matter. A well-played, compact ‘King Lear’ at Folger Theatre It was perhaps the art center’s most diverse class, which Lear noted in a taped segment from the medal presentation the night before. At the Kennedy Center Honors, plenty of politics make up for Trump’s playing hooky 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z “Norman Lear. I always wanted to work with him. And we just kept getting older.” Rita Moreno Aims to Hit the Right Accent on ‘One Day at a Time’ 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Other chapters then trace Lear’s influence on several later artists, including Beatrix Potter, Edward Gorey and the English editorial cartoonist Nicholas Garland. For the art lover, the naturalist, the child in your life, a new book on Edward Lear 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z 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 Nabokov's quiz question: what are the names of King Lear's dogs? The Guardian Review quiz 2010-12-16T12:56:46Z So if you need an art book for the holidays, consider Robert McCracken Peck’s “The Natural History of Edward Lear.” For the art lover, the naturalist, the child in your life, a new book on Edward Lear 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Directed by Ms. Hunter and featuring Mr. Petherbridge and Mr. Hunter, the piece looks at his recovery alongside aspects of the “Lear” story. Simon Callow Will Be Part of Brits Off Broadway Festival 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z 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 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 Murphy said he recently asked Lear in a telephone conversation if he had any advice for him. Alda, Lear honored at 40th International Emmys 2012-11-20T12:54:13Z 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 Lears selected four subjects for the feature that would ultimately blossom into her film Knock Down the House, premiering on Netflix this week. Knock Down the House: behind the year's most rousing political documentary 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z But after he dissolved his partnership with Lear in the mid-1970s, he never found the same level of success. Bud Yorkin, innovative TV producer and director, dies at 89 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z While men of her age have "great heroic cleaving parts still to play", and, at 73, she is "ready to play Lear", the big classical parts for women of her age simply do not exist. Actors' union rallies theatres to enable more parts for women 2012-06-29T16:44:14Z Groucho expatiated on Lear’s relationship to his daughters. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z So perhaps a jumbo “Lear” was to be expected. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z “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 And the “Encores!” program at New York City Center is planning a revival of “Into the Woods,” directed by Lear deBessonet and featuring Sara Bareilles as the Baker’s Wife, next May. Sondheim Is Writing a New Musical, and Hopes to Stage It Next Year 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z “I used to see the words ‘Created by Norman Lear’ so often, I didn’t think it was a real person,” he said. Ted Sarandos Talks About That Stock Drop, Backing Dave Chappelle, and Hollywood Schadenfreude 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z He received the award as an executive producer of ABC’s “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons,’” which won the best live variety special award. ‘Game of Thrones’ Dominates at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z “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 In the penultimate episode of the series, he lands a job in Wichita, Kan., working for Lear Jet. ‘Mad Men’ and the 1960s as Wild Republican Times 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The piece works beautifully in concert with “English as a Second Language,” which shows two Turkish schoolboys stammering their way through poems by Edward Lear. Art in Review: Kutlug Ataman: ‘Mesopotamian Dramaturgies’ 2012-12-13T20:56:37Z As the loyal Kent, Stanley Townsend is a burly henchman who, you imagine, has killed often in Lear’s name and would happily do so again. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z Mr. Lear wrote that she came up with Mary’s reaction to the killings: “What kind of a madman would want to kill two goats and eight chickens?” Ann Marcus, Writer for ‘Mary Hartman,’ Dies at 93 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z 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 Her voice wasn’t “ever soft,/Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman,” as Lear says of the dead Cordelia. London theater forecast after Brexit and Trump: Overcast skies with a chance of apocalypse 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Glenda Jackson as King Lear was a good idea. Review | This revival of ‘Grand Hotel’ offers only cold comfort 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z When Mr. Holm opened in “Lear,” it turned out to be a defining moment in his career, bringing him rapturous notices. Ian Holm, Malleable Actor Who Played Lear and a Hobbit, Dies at 88 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Yet I remember watching the original Norman Lear classic “One Day at a Time” as a child, and being utterly transfixed at the way Pat Harrington Jr.’s Schneider addressed the sitcom’s fictional single mother. Sheila Michaels, champion of “Ms.,” changed the world with “two consonants and a period” 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z 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 Jackson gives novel spin to Lear’s resonantly irrational remarks to Johnson’s Gloucester in their apocalyptic Act 4 encounter, but there’s more rhetoric than realism in the old king’s “reason in madness.” A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z 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 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 Lear's mother and sister moved in with his grandparents, while Lear himself was shuffled from one relative to another, never at home anywhere. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z As Virginia Woolf noted in her essay “On Being Ill,” “English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet or the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache.” How Patriarchy Imprinted Itself on the Family Who Created Jell-O 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z He began as a stage actor, a stalwart of the Liverpool Everyman and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and two years ago toured extensively with his much-admired Lear. A face we won't forget 2011-01-04T07:00:07Z A man with fascinating insight, Norman Lear was able to turn conflict into humor and big ratings. Review: About Norman Lear, Who Gave Us Archie Bunker 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z That show’s creator, Norman Lear, remains an inspiration for Sampson, who likes to wind up her characters and set them loose to elicit eye-opening laughs. For Her New Play, Tori Sampson Revisited Her ‘Black Power Household’ 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z 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 That interpretation encouraged me to think that as Lear, he might dare to appear truly old and fragile in a powerhouse role. | 'King Lear' : ?King Lear? at the Public Theater - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z Their amends are not too little, but in Lear’s case, they certainly are too late. Review: A ‘King Lear’ in Which You Feel for All the Daughters 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The director is Lear deBessonet, who’s based at New York’s Public Theater. New plays by Ayad Akhtar, Quiara Alegria Hudes and Joe DiPietro highlight La Jolla Playhouse season 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z “It’s a friendly war. There’s me trying to get as much Lear into the show as I could and him trying to take as much out.” The King’s the Thing, Not the Play, for an Actor Who Would Be Lear 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z She’s the first- string theater photographer of the Times, joining us to shoot a few images of our “Lear” rehearsals. Learning 'Lear': Playing to the Camera 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z No less a liberal lion than Norman Lear praised him on Twitter as “a true explorer.” Let’s Talk About Hugh Hefner’s Political Legacy 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Ever since, every “Lear” I go to, I see my father in that poor ravaged king. A Ghostly Father Sets Off a Cascade of Memories 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Televangelist Pat Robertson, furious about the defeat, sent Lear a pointed note. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 Hopkins’ theory is that Lear’s wife died giving birth to Cordelia, and Lear brought her up, his favourite, as a tomboy. Anthony Hopkins: ‘Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z But it wasn’t clear to me whether Warner wanted us to be super-conscious of the performance of Lear’s fury or the experience of it. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Despite sometimes tackling serious subjects in her work, Franklin was always a cheery and positive person, Lear said Friday. Bonnie Franklin, 'One Day At a Time' star, dies 2013-03-01T18:38:09Z 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 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 Lear, who once purchased an original copy of the Declaration of Independence that he sent on a nationwide tour, is the founder of the nonprofit People for the American Way. PEN Center USA literary awards a star-filled event 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z 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 I’m a bit surprised, though, that a production directed by Lear deBessonet requires such forgetting. Review: On the Road With Mom in ‘Miss You Like Hell’ 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z New York Times critic Charles Isherwood called Falls' Lear "aggressively raunchy" and "excruciatingly violent" but observed that it succeeded in its aim "to reawaken our revulsion at the violence in this relentlessly dark tragedy." Robert Falls, Midwesterner at heart, warms to L.A. for 'Luna Gale' 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z “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 Evening acts will include carols, fire-eating and unicycling – plus Edward Lear poetry to help you dance by the light of the moon. This week's new events 2012-11-24T00:04:02Z The series was born at a dinner party in Los Angeles in November 2018, where Nee, a self-described “civics geek,” approached the producer Norman Lear about doing a series of civics-related music videos. ‘We the People’ Updates the Sound of Schoolhouse Rock With Rap and R&B 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z 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 Like much of that genre, this “Lear” is set in a sylvan world that is transformed from enchanted daylight into deepest night. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ in an Enchanted Setting Along the Hudson River 2013-08-18T21:51:45Z Without Lear, the man from Nantucket may as well have been from Martha’s Vineyard. There Once Was a Man Who Felt Lonely: A Biographer Considers Edward Lear’s Art and Its Sources 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z That’s a grim, arresting detail, and yet it makes up no part of the lumpen dramatic fabric of “On the Levee,” which was conceived and directed by Lear deBessonet. | 'On the Levee': Tamping Down a Flood at the Duke on 42nd Street 2010-06-29T02:37:00Z 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 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 On the particular day that is the focus here, Sir is to perform Lear, and the play works some parallels between that character and Sir, with his rages and tenuous hold on reality. Review: In ‘The Dresser,’ Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins Give Riveting Performances 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z The text, selected with the help of the late Frank Kermode, is ordered into 24 short scenes, aimed at focusing the drama more closely on Lear and Gloucester. Promised End 2010-10-10T20:31:00Z “Julius Caesar” will be followed by more familiar summer fare: a production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” directed by Lear deBessonet. ‘Julius Caesar,’ With Echoes of Trump, Will Run in Central Park 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Ms. Lee alludes to Shakespeare’s frequent invocation of that negative word in her own play, titled “Lear,” which had its premiere Thursday night at Soho Rep. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z If you do the math, you’ll see that Lear was still in his teens when it began to appear. For the art lover, the naturalist, the child in your life, a new book on Edward Lear 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Many major actors take a run at the role in Shakespeare’s tragedy, a part so daunting that it’s nicknamed Mount Lear. Glenda Jackson Hopes to Scale Mount Lear in Her Stage Return 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Lear requires a modern actor to ascend in his imagination to an overwhelming reality without the banister of realism. Searching for the next King Lear: A critic shares his casting notes 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Since she was first incarnated by Ethel Merman more than half a century ago, Momma Rose has become to the American musical what Hamlet and Lear are to the English drama. London Theater Journal: A Scorching Momma Rose 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z 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 The result, “In His Own Write,” was a hit — reviewers compared Lennon with Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll — and Mr. Maschler commissioned the follow-up, “A Spaniard in the Works.” ArtsBeat: John Lennon Manuscripts Go to Auction 2014-02-25T17:31:34Z 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 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 That was during the marking of my 60th birthday, and I thought then, I’d like to revisit Lear in about 10 years. André De Shields Isn’t Done With ‘King Lear’ (or ‘Hadestown’) 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Currently, he is developing “The Pink Marine” into a TV series with the sitcom legend Norman Lear. ‘American Veteran’ Honors the Many Faces of the U.S. Soldier 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z After being overlooked by U.S. opera houses, Lear won fame in Vienna singing the title character in Alban Berg's "Lulu." Opera star soprano Evelyn Lear dies at 86 in Md. 2012-07-03T20:49:20Z This half-hour, in the spirit of the issue comedy of the Norman Lear 1970s, directly addressed the Black Lives Matter protests. The Memorable TV Episodes of 2016 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z 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 “Lear” is much performed these days, with Frank Langella currently holding imperious court at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z When we were rehearsing the “mad scene” – the exchange between Lear who has lost his mind and Gloucester who has lost his eyes – Ian was being achingly brilliant. 'This is the best moment of my life,' he said, lying in the bath: Ian Holm remembered 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z 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’ This popular sitcom, a remake of the Norman Lear original, had to halt production of its fourth season because of the coronavirus. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Let It Fall’ and ‘One Day at a Time’ 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z 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 Many of those led to a show actually called “Trump Lear,” a biting comparison of the two leaders that ran Off Broadway in the summer of 2017. It’s Time to Turn the Page on the Trump-Shakespeare Comparisons 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z “There’s no question Norman Lear is a true champion of people of color,” said “Blackish” star Anthony Anderson. At the Kennedy Center Honors, plenty of politics make up for Trump’s playing hooky 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z At the end of the ceremony, Murphy returned to the stage to give the awards to Lear and Alda. Alda, Lear honored at 40th International Emmys 2012-11-20T03:18:08Z Among the many pleasures of this biography are its frequent quotations from Lear’s journals and fanciful letters. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z 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 After the Archie-verse was established, Lear continued to produce series that humanized the members of marginalized groups. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z That’s because Lear himself is unmatched as a portrait of a forceful, commanding personality under siege to the destructiveness of age. | 'King Lear' : ?King Lear? at the Public Theater - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z Indeed, he recently published a book, “Year of the Mad King,” about his excavation work on Lear. Review: A ‘King Lear’ in Which You Feel for All the Daughters 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Patronage and art projects kept Lear afloat; he became a master at being a guest of the wealthy — a witty, engaging, sympathetic figure always happy to entertain children or give instruction in painting. There Once Was a Man Who Felt Lonely: A Biographer Considers Edward Lear’s Art and Its Sources 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z "With the passing of Sherman Hemsley, the world loses one of its most unique comic talents and a lovely man," Lear said in a statement. "The Jeffersons" actor Sherman Hemsley dies at 74 2012-07-25T03:01:52Z “One thinks of Lear as rather towering, a kind of oak,” he said, sipping a cappuccino in a coffee bar near Central Park. The King’s the Thing, Not the Play, for an Actor Who Would Be Lear 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z “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 On this occasion, though, the gimmicks freighting the three-hour tale of the demise of Lear and his household neutralize the enterprise’s emotional intensity. Review | Glenda Jackson as King Lear was a good idea. Why is everything around her so wrong? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z 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 Midway through the play a storm arrives, cueing a scene in which Vilem wanders around his courtyard, railing against the cruel gods, in words drawn more or less directly from “Lear.” | 'Leaving': A New Play by Vaclav Havel Has Its American Premiere 2010-06-08T22:24:00Z Before long, the young Lear was giving drawing lessons to the newly married Queen Victoria. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Randall Lear made his professor into an aesthetic assassin, giving her a bag and asking her to throw it off a roof as often as she liked. In the galleries: At Hamiltonian, a birthday celebration of a different sort 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Lear would go on to create a run of socially-conscious sitcoms. Jean Stapleton, TV’s Edith Bunker, Dies at 90 2013-06-01T21:24:50Z 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 And that was the only version of Lear that was performed between 1681 and 1838, so for 150 years, there was no real Lear except as a text. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z 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 In fact, the great crisis of Shakespeare’s tragedy hinges on the fact that Lear is, like, this great loyalty freak, too. Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 It was an unforgettable “tour de force” performance, Lear said. ‘Maude’ co-star, character actor Bill Macy dies at 97 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z 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 Creditably, “Nearly Lear” doesn’t add any sugar to Shakespeare’s sanguinary story, letting the corpses fall where they may. | 'Nearly Lear': An Answer to a Crying Need: ?King Lear? for Children 2011-01-10T23:30:23Z Ms. Taylor, his wife, said that at his death Mr. Plummer had been preparing to appear as Lear on film for the first time, under the direction of Des McAnuff. Christopher Plummer, Actor From Shakespeare to ‘The Sound of Music,’ Dies at 91 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z 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 Many, like both Kimmel and Reiner, continue to keep Lear's legacy alive in their comedy, too, making audiences laugh and think in an effort to change the world for the better. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 “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 “If anything, Mike was a little bit more liberal than I am,” he says of his character in the Norman Lear comedy. Rob Reiner talks about making movies for grown-ups But while still a teenager, Lear began to sketch the animals in the London Zoo, especially the parrots. For the art lover, the naturalist, the child in your life, a new book on Edward Lear 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z 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 For almost 200 years, theaters staged a happier “Lear,” a script substantially altered by Nahum Tate, who became England’s poet laureate in 1692. Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z 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 Accepting the award, Lear also turned to his book, reading from its preface. PEN Center USA literary awards a star-filled event 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Lear knew they were right to challenge him, and he knew just what to do about it, too. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Bill Nash portrays the Earl of Kent, Lear’s loyal vassal, who is also in disguise as he follows his master’s downfall, with a similarly stark gravity. The Shakespeare Globe’s Informal ‘King Lear’ at the Skirball 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z 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 Days after the Kennedy Center announced this year’s honorees, Lear told reporters that he would boycott parts of the event. Norman Lear put his foot down — and Trump’s White House flinched 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z 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 Our best hope is that some fearless soul within the tyrant’s circle, like the unnamed servant in “Lear” who protests at Cornwall’s gouging out of Gloucester’s eyes, will call a halt. What Would Shakespeare Have Made of Donald Trump? 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z In “Marat/Sade,” Brook synthesized the revolutionary influences of Brecht and Artaud in a groundbreaking production that, like his sublimely craggy “Lear” with Scofield, has had a second life on film. Portrait of the artist as an ageless man: At 92, Peter Brook treads a different path through 'The Mahabharata' 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z The great Paul Bogart, who helmed 97 episodes of "All in the Family" and created its visual template, got his start in live TV in the '50s, and imported that sensibility to Lear's show. Why "All in the Family" still matters 2011-01-12T15:01:00Z "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 I confess that when I first saw Briers' Lear, at the jet-lagged end of a tiring week in Chicago, I shamefully fell asleep. Richard Briers was a potent presence on stage, as well as in The Good Life 2013-02-18T16:04:36Z Now, he feels he’s got Lear right, and few would disagree. Anthony Hopkins: ‘Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z 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 Somehow, some way, the gods were in alignment, and when I thought everything was over, Norman Lear steps into the picture. Rita Moreno reflects on tenacity, her career and Latinx representation: "Where is our 'Moonlight'?" 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Her return, after such a long hiatus, is highly unusual and, at 80, she is older than all but one of Britain’s last 10 Lears in major productions. Glenda Jackson Hopes to Scale Mount Lear in Her Stage Return 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z 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 Having triumphed once again in a Pinter play, he then did “Lear” at the National Theater in 1997. Ian Holm, Malleable Actor Who Played Lear and a Hobbit, Dies at 88 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Murphy and Lear are to receive honorary awards at Monday night's International Emmy Awards Gala. `Glee' producer Ryan Murphy to honor Norman Lear 2012-11-18T18:16:03Z "These are human problems that we don't seem to beat," said Lear. Bea Arthur took 'Maude' out of 'Family's' shadow 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z The dialogue and soliloquies are spoken so that sense and motivation are always comprehensible, with incisive and legible performances by, among others, Ryan Quinn as the evil Edmund and Wesley Mann as Lear’s Fool. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ in an Enchanted Setting Along the Hudson River 2013-08-18T21:51:45Z 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 Humbled, as Lear is, by the stripping away of privilege, Timon is failed by his swagger, and he’s forced to confront the stark, existential isolation that haunts us all. Review | Shakespeare’s ‘Timon of Athens’ takes a rare Washington bow 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z “I’ve had a lifetime of partners, performers, associations and creative talents for which I am eternally grateful,” Lear said, adding there would be “an entirely different Norman Lear here with you tonight” without them. TV legend Norman Lear credits journey to laughter, family 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z 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 With "Knock Down the House," director Rachel Lears was interested in "really looking at the intersection of money and politics and representation," she told Salon. "Knock Down the House" with AOC: New film offers a deeply humanizing portrait of a media obsession 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z 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 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 At the time the young Lear left his parents' home with his eldest sister, Ann, who was 21 years older than him. Two hundred years of nonsense 2012-05-22T07:39:49Z In London, she’s defied gender conventions in some of the biggest roles, playing Richard III and Lear. Times Writers Share Last Chance Theater Picks 2013-12-26T21:06:11Z “King Lear” is full of high-pitched, raw emotion. Learning 'Lear': A King's Gotta Eat 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z By then, however, Lear had begun to weary of feathers and fur — the close-up work strained his weak eyes — and so, in his late 30s, he reinvented himself as a landscape specialist. For the art lover, the naturalist, the child in your life, a new book on Edward Lear 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Lears clearly feels earnest sympathy for her subjects and passion for their cause, but the film often replicates for viewers the same atmosphere of hopelessness that makes climate activism a hard sell for voters. ‘To the End’ Review: Seeing Red While Left on Read 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z 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 This biodoc, which came out in theaters this summer, is a solid overview of Lear’s influence and impact, though it drifts more into hagiography than genuine exploration. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Humans’ and ‘Rectify’ 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Ben Lear, Norman Lear’s son, follows the process. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Bachelorette’ and ‘Carpool Karaoke’ 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z 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 In what ways do you think Lear speaks to this moment in history? Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z One of Lear’s best-known poems begins like this: Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z 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 So great was the distance between the proscenium stage and the back row that even the stormiest Lear was all but inaudible to those seats. Royal Shakespeare Theatre: All's well ? 2010-11-23T18:43:00Z One Day at a Time didn’t get quite the recognition or canonical status of other Lear shows like All in the Family, Maude or Good Times. Remembering Bonnie Franklin, One Day at a Time‘s Single-Mom Hero 2013-03-01T20:56:30Z 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 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 But he does not convey the bleeding wounds from which Lear’s anger springs: the outrage to his authentic if misguided paternal love. | 'King Lear' : The Old, Inexorable Story of a King?s Disintegration 2011-07-17T21:53:11Z Your version of Lear is a ruthless Canadian media mogul. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z 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 Then we boiled it down to “Iceman” and “King Lear.” Passing the Torch: Denzel Washington and Michael B. Jordan 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Visually and sometimes even emotionally, this is an unsatisfyingly grounded “Lear.” Review | ‘King Lear’ with Rick Foucheux is a family meltdown 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 “I wrote some remarks and I hate them now,” Mr. Lear, still strapping at 92, said, inserting an expletive and eliciting guffaws. At A.F.I. Lunch, an Award for Everyone 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z 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 Lear nods in assent as the passage is read aloud. Norman Lear put his foot down — and Trump’s White House flinched 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z 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 Redgrave followed Lear with a solo show, Tynan, in which he conveyed – at Stratford and at London's Arts Theatre – the famous critic's political, aesthetic and sexual radicalism without ever stooping to impersonation. Corin Redgrave obituary 2010-04-06T18:58:00Z Jenny Uglow calls her capacious and astute new biography “Mr. Lear,” which is certainly straightforward. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z For this documentary, the director, Rachel Lears, trailed four women running in primaries for House seats in the 2018 election. 6 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Hopkins decided that Lear had seen his father drown three puppies when he was young and believed his friends to be those dogs. Anthony Hopkins: ‘Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z 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 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 I don’t think I’ve ever seen a “Lear” that is so satisfyingly easy to follow. | 'King Lear': He?s a Grumpy Old Man, but Don?t Dare Run Away 2011-05-06T14:33:07Z 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 Other television stars said that Mr. Lear’s influence was sorely lacking today. Norman Lear’s Memoir, ‘Even This I Get to Experience’ 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Halfway through, he hears the hub-bub of Lear and several of his knights, approaching from a distance after a day of hunting. Learning 'Lear': The How-To's of Hub-Bub 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z In the play, which is nearly four hours long including intermission, a Frenchwoman named Cornélia dreams that her director, one Constantin Lear, has disappeared and left her in charge while the company is touring India. A Theater Visionary ‘Nourished by the World’ 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z I was obviously familiar with it and with Smiley before I got the offer, but it's such a famous part it's also a bit like an actor being offered Hamlet or Lear. Gary Oldman steps into shadows for "Tinker Tailor" 2011-12-08T19:08:24Z By the end of the 1970s, Lear had become a legend, but American political winds started to blow in a different direction. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z 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 “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 Poet Edward Lear was a genius at writing "nonsense" verse. Two hundred years of nonsense 2012-05-22T07:39:49Z 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 Highlights include “King Lear,” from Sept. 29 to Oct. Skirball Announces Its 2014-15 Season 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z 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 Back in the days of Norman Lear, you had real people on television. Hollywood weighs in on fat people 2010-09-16T12:22:00Z The scene in Act 4 between the mad Lear and the blinded Gloucester doesn't register the heartbreak of two men at the end of their lives searching for meaning in their abominable suffering. Globe's compact 'King Lear,' at the Broad, lacks needed heft 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Lear, on the heath, stands next to the Fool—the latter cracking wise, as ever—as the wind whips up nightmares. Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z But it’s disheartening to think that echoing the deluded Lear’s ruin is her only means of reclaiming heroic status. Review: In ‘Linda,’ the Lures and Snares of Leaning In 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Decades later, Murphy is following the path blazed by Lear with his shows, "Glee" and "The New Normal." `Glee' producer Ryan Murphy to honor Norman Lear 2012-11-18T18:16:03Z 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 “I’ve got to go, darlings,” Ms. Lear said from the stage. Paris Fashion Week: French Vogue?s 90th Birthday Is a Wild One 2010-10-01T19:50:00Z There is simply no spiritual, intellectual or metaphysical equivalent to Lear, the Richards, the Henries, nor the twin peaks of Othello and his demonic tempter, Iago, and certainly no woman baddies of that order. Are Shakespeare's women second-class citizens? 2012-07-19T11:09:28Z Lear said, "There are those using social media and the internet, the way Father Coughlin used the radio to spew hate and lies. Online these dangerous falsehoods spread at lightning speed." Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z 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 “When Lear talks of being ‘unaccommodated man’ he must be naked,” he said, “anything less would be dishonest.” 'This is the best moment of my life,' he said, lying in the bath: Ian Holm remembered 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z 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 When Norman Lear was looking for an actor to play Archie Bunker’s neighbor, he remembered seeing Mr. Hemsley in that show. Sherman Hemsley, Star of ‘The Jeffersons’ Dies at 74 2012-07-25T05:07:18Z Mr. Lear traced Mr. Hemsley to San Francisco, where he was appearing onstage in the musical “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope,” and offered him the role of George Jefferson. Sherman Hemsley, Star of ‘The Jeffersons’ Dies at 74 2012-07-25T05:07:18Z This Lear isn’t suffering so much from old age, per se, as from having lived all those years without once being contradicted. Theater Review: Frank Langella, Roaring at Defiance in ‘King Lear’ 2014-01-17T03:00:02Z 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 Doran honors Sher’s Lear by kitting him out as a kind of hunting deity, blanketed in fur and bedecked with gold plates. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z 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 In Edward Lear’s comic 1871 poem of the same title, the Owl and the Pussycat “danced by the light of the moon.” 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z This error and other observations about the “failings” of giants in the industry like Norman Lear are so flawed, I think I’ll skip the book, and wish I’d done so with the review. Reflecting on a Lifetime of Reading and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z His series tackled racism, feminism and other social issues that had been taboo on TV before Lear and then-partner Bud Yorkin broke through with “All in the Family.” TV legend Norman Lear credits journey to laughter, family 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z 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 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 Benjamin Pesetsky used Shakespeare’s text for “Lear’s Shadow,” which he scored for three sopranos, viola and piano. Music Review: Extinct Species and Vibrant Poetry 2011-03-18T22:30:08Z 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 Actor Rob Reiner, who appeared on “All in the Family,” described Lear’s paternal influence. At the Kennedy Center Honors, plenty of politics make up for Trump’s playing hooky 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Cedric describes it as a “family comedy with some degree of the old Norman Lear energy.” Cedric the Entertainer’s ‘The Neighborhood’ joins a wave of TV shows about gentrification 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z As the film’s title suggests, Lear has always been guided by his faith in communication and human commonality, qualities that seem in short supply at the moment. Norman Lear sits down with Salon: “Trump is the middle finger of the American right hand” 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z After Ms Jackson left the House of Commons, she was tempted back to the stage at the age of 80 by seeing Núria Espert, a celebrated Catalan actress, playing Lear. Lear’s rage comes naturally to Glenda Jackson 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z 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 “It is a fierce performance. It is actually ‘Lear’-like in many ways,” said Brown. Glenda Jackson returns to screen with ‘Elizabeth Is Missing’ 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Norman Lear, who created sitcoms like “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons,” and his wife, Lyn, a Sundance trustee, are providing funding. ArtsBeat: Sundance Institute to Look at the Little Picture 2014-03-19T18:30:57Z 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 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 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 Jackson has a habit of italicizing in rage a single word that makes Lear’s anger more rhetorical than believable. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z All Lear says he did was change the point of view. Norman Lear put his foot down — and Trump’s White House flinched 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z "The Jeffersons" became the most successful of Lear's "All in the Family" spinoffs: the second-longest-running series in television history featuring a Black family. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z 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 But by “Lear,” that all seemed to be ending. Christopher Plummer’s Robust Final Act Crowned a Noble Career 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z And Lear has almost a quarter of the lines in the play, which is not exactly a short one. The King’s the Thing, Not the Play, for an Actor Who Would Be Lear 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z But even when this Lear is at his most demented, you can see exactly where he’s coming from. | 'King Lear': He?s a Grumpy Old Man, but Don?t Dare Run Away 2011-05-06T14:33:07Z Mr. O’Brien must share credit with nature for this metamorphosis, and on the clear, beguilingly cool evening I saw his “Lear,” nature was a brilliant collaborator. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ in an Enchanted Setting Along the Hudson River 2013-08-18T21:51:45Z 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 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 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 Few Bardolators would argue that “Pericles” is the equal of “Lear” in poetry or power. Shakespeare's ‘Pericles, Prince of Tyre,' at the Public Theater 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z For Mr. Lear, 94, participating in the film is a continuation of a mission to buck the stereotype of the elderly as “decrepit and weak and foolish.” For Carl Reiner and His Fellow Nonagenarians, Death Can Wait 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 Simon Russell Beale just completed a regal tour of duty, in a “Lear” at Britain’s National Theatre. Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ 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 “I carry the horseshoe with me wherever I go now. I still get emotional about it – the power, and the loneliness, and the pain of that horse. That’s Lear.” Anthony Hopkins: ‘Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Of the three, Keach has appeared on the most Washington stages, portraying such Shakespearean monarchs as Lear, Macbeth and Richard III. Hurt, a septuagenarian Brit, is probably the best known. Backstage: Michele Shay takes up familiar ‘Seven Guitars’ Sharing the podium and trading punch lines at the Beverly Hills event, Apatow and Dunham quickly turned their attention from their own work to a man seated near the stage: Norman Lear. PEN Center USA literary awards a star-filled event 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z This makes it something less than “Lear” at maximum force. A well-played, compact ‘King Lear’ at Folger Theatre He’s an electrifying subject, a muttering Lear, of perennial interest to anyone with even an average curiosity about politics or psychology. ‘Richard Nixon,’ Portrait of a Thin-Skinned, Media-Hating President 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Simon Russell Beale makes the central character more coherent than ever before, and more vital, more important, more all-encompassing – part Thersites, part corporation smoothie, part Lear. Timon of Athens; Peace Camp; The Only True History of Lizzie Finn – review 2012-07-21T23:05:46Z As with Lear, on this occasion a certain moral clarity about human-ness comes with madness, and our narrator is soon in full swing. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z With this bit of “Lear,” on the other hand, he has found a subject grand enough to match his sensibility. Review: A Composer’s ‘Lear’ Freshens a Shakespeare Evening 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z 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 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 Like Lear, Hillary had been exiled to the wilderness, but she had all her wits, and it looked like a beautiful day. The Broadway Life of Hillary Clinton 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Yorkin later directed films, including “Come Blow Your Horn” and “Divorce American Style,” with scripts by Lear before revolutionizing the situation comedy in the ’70s. Bud Yorkin, innovative TV producer and director, dies at 89 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z 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 Rauch’s finely calibrated, uncluttered interpretation of “Lear” is a showcase for veteran OSF players who speak the verse with superior cogency and command. Oregon Shakespeare Fest, 2013: the Bard, and more 2013-07-24T22:08:57Z Not that I put that in directly, but you couldn’t have that sort of dimension unless Lear was a powerful man in my version. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z 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 Once again, Lear will invite viewers into a demographic situation they might otherwise ignore. Norman Lear put his foot down — and Trump’s White House flinched 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z 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 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 “Nearly Lear” is in fact not nearly “Lear” by any reasonable measure. | 'Nearly Lear': An Answer to a Crying Need: ?King Lear? for Children 2011-01-10T23:30:23Z "No one gave more profound 'How to be a Human Being' lessons than Jean Stapleton," said the show's producer Norman Lear. Emmy winning actress Stapleton dies 2013-06-03T16:55:34Z Lears didn’t want any one candidate to emerge as the star of the film, preferring to keep the focus squarely on the collective effort that these four women jointly represented. Knock Down the House: behind the year's most rousing political documentary 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z However, Lear made it clear that it wouldn’t be fair to Bunker to agree with that assessment. Norman Lear doesn’t want to be honored by Donald Trump 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Lear’s gift is to find his own thirst for companionship echoed in the sense-making elements of language. There Once Was a Man Who Felt Lonely: A Biographer Considers Edward Lear’s Art and Its Sources 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z As Mr. Pennington plays the moment, you can tell that Lear regrets what he’s said as soon as the words leave his mouth. Theater Review: ‘King Lear,’ With Michael Pennington, Opens in Brooklyn 2014-03-28T02:00:01Z 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 Remarkably, he was still able to remember every word of King Lear. My Perfect Mind – review 2013-04-07T13:17:11Z 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 Lear says he thinks the public discussion of abortion rights is very similar to the environment when the Maude episode aired in November 1972, shortly before Roe v. 'Maude' Creator: Why Olivia Pope's Abortion Was So 'Bold' 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z JLD: I think of it as spending celebrity, as Norman Lear once said. Table For Three: Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Nancy Pelosi: A Power Lunch, Times Two 2014-04-04T22:47:29Z "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 "No one gave more profound 'How to be a Human Being' lessons than Jean Stapleton," Norman Lear, the producer of "All In the Family," said in a written statement released to Reuters. Jean Stapleton, who played TV's Edith Bunker, dies at age 90 2013-06-02T01:01:19Z Because “The Natural History of Edward Lear” emphasizes Lear’s pictorial art, you will want to acquire another book to enjoy his comic writing. For the art lover, the naturalist, the child in your life, a new book on Edward Lear 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Now, like Lear’s subjects, we find ourselves experiencing the chaos that reigns “when majesty falls to folly.” Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Lear will be receiving the Kennedy Center Honors on Dec. 3, but the president and first lady won’t be anywhere near the awards show or any of the weekend’s celebrations. Norman Lear put his foot down — and Trump’s White House flinched 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z While Edward Lear was a magnificent painter of exotic animals and places, he nonetheless found immortality in his work for children. For the art lover, the naturalist, the child in your life, a new book on Edward Lear 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z But of course, in another sense, preparation is the right word, in that I knew about what drew me to Lear. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Kennedy Center officials said Trump plans to attend the festivities, but Lear said it was unlikely he would attend a White House reception. LL Cool J becomes the first rapper to be Kennedy Center Honors recipient 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z “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 Woody Harrelson is stepping into the iconic role as part of a 90-minute ABC special celebrating writer, director and producer Norman Lear. Who’s ready for a new Archie Bunker, live on your TV? 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z And they are sufficiently connected to people from the opening “Lear” sequence to carry totems of that lost theatrical world. Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Station Eleven,’ a Flu Apocalypse 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z 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 Lear, who will turn 94 later this month — “If I make it that far,” he would surely add — tells great stories. Norman Lear sits down with Salon: “Trump is the middle finger of the American right hand” 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z 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 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 In King Lear, it felt like he was totally on the rack at times. Pete Postlethwaite remembered 2011-01-03T19:30:01Z 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 As Norman Lear created him and Hemsley brought him to life, George was an example of how the same things that make sitcom characters outsized and hilarious can make them believable and real. Sherman Hemsley, Jeffersons Star, Dies at Age 74 2012-07-25T00:56:05Z 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 No one goes less gentle or more magnificently into the mortal, senescent twilight than Lear. | 'King Lear' : ?King Lear? at the Public Theater - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z Tate's version omitted the Fool, and saw Lear restored to the throne in time to see Cordelia marry Edgar and live happily ever after. Should a playwright have the final say over a production? 2013-07-25T11:43:37Z Meanwhile the poet and broadcaster Michael Rosen tells us why we should all get over Dickens and instead celebrate the bicentenary of nonsense writer Edward Lear. Philosophical nonsense 2012-05-25T11:28:27Z 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 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 There’s a sweetness to his Lear, even at the beginning, when his gravest flaw seems to be nothing worse than a toddler’s impetuous temper. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z The best essays — like Jane Addams’s “A Modern Lear” — derive their power from reading American events through an acute understanding of Shakespeare’s plays. Book Review Podcast: 'Shakespeare in America' 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Yet like that celebrated downer, “King Lear,” the novel leaves one not just shaken but exalted. ‘Harlequin’s Millions,’ by Bohumil Hrabal 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 “Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You” is not rated. Review: About Norman Lear, Who Gave Us Archie Bunker 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The Norman Lear sitcoms of the seventies, whose familial spirit carried up to the edge of the aughts, now scan as cliché. A Korean Television Show About the Power of Pop Culture 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z And I was moved by Chimamanda Adichie’s “Notes on Grief,” in part because it is an anti-“Daddy,” an anti-“Lear” — which is to say, it is an adoring portrait of a beloved parent. Kathryn Schulz Doesn’t Count Any Reading Pleasures as Guilty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z In a way, “Three Tall Women” — a comedy about decrepitude or a tragedy about survival, depending on how you look at it — is “Queen Lear” in a fun house mirror. Review: Glenda Jackson Gets Her Queen Lear Moment in ‘Three Tall Women’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Lears and her team followed her subjects in the lead-up to some key 2018 primaries, and the fly-on-the-wall access granted to them is reflected throughout every moment of “Knock Down the House.” "Knock Down the House" review: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears in emotional, energetic doc 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z 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 This “Lear” is always easy to follow, quite an accomplishment, given the preponderance of crossed alliances and alter egos in the plot. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z 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 In the scene with Kent, Edgar and the Fool, as Lear descends into madness, he has all three line up on a bench and addresses them with the wrong names. Anthony Hopkins: ‘Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z And in Lear, it doesn't go on and on and on. TV review: Utopia; The Sarah Millican Television Programme 2013-01-16T07:00:08Z Lear’s growing awareness of his blindness to his own faults, and his mournful discovery of the universal nature of human suffering, are rendered with affecting clarity and simplicity. ‘King John’ and ‘King Lear’ at the Stratford Festival 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z I won’t torture this comparison any further, because the differences between Chuck and Lear outnumber the similarities. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2 Episode 9: The Brothers McGill 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z 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 While Mr. Lear is still invested in the cultural conversation, he also seemed to find a certain comfort in not being at the white-hot center of it. Norman Lear’s Memoir, ‘Even This I Get to Experience’ 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z The long-running Norman Lear sitcom is retooled for a new century. What’s on TV Friday: ‘One Day at a Time’ and ‘Emerald City’ 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Eventually, past and present converge: a few issues of the comic book outlive the chaos, and end up influencing the survivors just as much as “Lear” or “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Her senile dementia is mined for poignancy: Queen Lear as your sad, vague Aunt Maggie. Meryl as Maggie in The Iron Lady: A Stunt of Genius 2011-12-29T16:59:44Z But since there are so few great roles for women, Bridget wonders why she shouldn’t take on Hamlet or Macbeth or even Lear. Review: In ‘Linda,’ the Lures and Snares of Leaning In 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Special awards were presented to veteran TV producer Norman Lear and transgender actress Laverne Cox, star of prison drama Orange is the New Black. Singer Lopez honoured at gay awards 2014-04-13T16:11:45Z 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 “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 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 Although I did Lear a long time ago, I wasn’t very happy with that. Anthony Hopkins: 'Every day I think about quitting' 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z “The purpose of the documentary is not to create a platform for the politicians,” Lears explains. Knock Down the House: behind the year's most rousing political documentary 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z "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 From his home in Italy, Lear would sell drawings and watercolors to the well-to-do as visual souvenirs of their time on the Grand Tour. For the art lover, the naturalist, the child in your life, a new book on Edward Lear 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z If you set aside any hopes that “Lear” will illuminate Shakespeare’s original, you can enjoy the lurches from loony lyricism to blunt contemporary speech. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z 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 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 It's possible he and Lear plan to spend the evening debating the impact of the Heath government's ongoing rent freeze on the UK property market, but it doesn't really look like it. Roxy Music: The Complete Studio Recordings 1972-1982 – review 2012-08-02T14:30:02Z But he also thinks we’ve put Lear on too high a pedestal, that the notion of the king as the play’s singularly dominant character is a stodgy leftover from earlier centuries. Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ The best talent today is in situation comedy — from Norman Lear to the Mary Tyler Moore studio to 'M*A*S*H,' while sketch comedy is preserved from total witlessness only by the Burnett show. 'Saturday Night Live': What critics said about the show 40 years ago 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z If anything, Mr. Yorkin’s contributions to the duo’s trailblazing TV productions have been overshadowed in recent years by the work of Lear, who at 93 remains a formidable creative force in Hollywood. Bud Yorkin, innovative TV producer and director, dies at 89 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z 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 Now we judge a new Hamlet, Lear or Cleopatra not as an isolated exhibition but by its place in the conceptual scheme. Is Judi Dench the best ever? 2010-12-16T13:54:02Z These two new mountings of “Lear” could hardly be more different. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z “It is a daunting and taxing role both mentally and physically,” said Mr. Shapiro, whose “The Year of Lear,” about 1606, when the play was written, will be published this fall. The King’s the Thing, Not the Play, for an Actor Who Would Be Lear 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z 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 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 When Lear was eight years old, H.K. was arrested for fraud and sent to prison for five years. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z She went on to Yale in drama and acts in both classic plays like “Midsummer” and contemporary ones like Young Jean Lee’s fractured “Lear.” January Stages: In Your Seat but on Your Toes 2014-01-02T23:10:17Z This documentary begins with Mr. Lear’s Connecticut childhood and follows him to Hollywood, “All in the Family” and decades of success. Summer Movie Release Schedule 2016 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z “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 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 What's genuinely astonishing, however, is how Lear's writing still speaks so clearly to America's current cultural divisions decades after it first appeared. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z 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 Hopkins believes that Lear is terrified of women, can’t understand them. Anthony Hopkins: ‘Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z 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 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 How many of the president’s supporters have begged him — as Lear’s supporters implored him — “Check this hideous rashness”? But to no avail. Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z The next milestone for me was Robert Stephens's King Lear. Shakespeare and me: Thea Sharrock 2012-06-30T23:05:28Z “Wherever he saw a barrier, he ran over there and kicked it in,” she said, adding that Mr. Lear was “an amazingly focused anarchist.” Norman Lear’s Memoir, ‘Even This I Get to Experience’ 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z 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? A Lifetime of Roles, Sometimes Two at a Time 2011-06-15T22:29:15Z In 2019, she did do Lear on Broadway, in a reconceived production tricked out with an abundance of postmodern conceits that might have smothered a less assertive star. Glenda Jackson, an Unnervingly Energizing Presence at Every Age 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z At the age of 80, the two-time Oscar-winning Ms. Jackson has returned home to the theater after several decades to play no less a personage than that fellow octogenarian, Lear himself. Review: Glenda Jackson Rivets as King Lear in Her Return to the Stage 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z 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 And, just last month, 1997’s animated “Hercules” debuted in Central Park as a live production under the auspices of the Public Theater and rising off-Broadway director Lear deBessonet. Perspective | Read all about it: Why Disney owns the live stage, too 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z “He delivers a Lear both deeply personal and universal: a distinctly individual man whose face becomes a mirror for every man’s mortality.” Christopher Plummer, Actor From Shakespeare to ‘The Sound of Music,’ Dies at 91 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z It made me remember my introduction to the woeful and wonderful story of “Lear” as a child, via Charles and Mary Lamb’s “Tales From Shakespeare,” read to me by my grandfather. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ in an Enchanted Setting Along the Hudson River 2013-08-18T21:51:45Z Lear’s awakening moment of compassion for the homeless of the world during the heath scene is both deep and exquisitely simple. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z 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 Having seen Song of the Goat's Songs of Lear, he takes aim at theatre that aims to be sacred. Noises off: a 'bloody weird' fringe, and killing a sacred cow 2012-08-24T10:43:47Z Writer Norman Lear and veteran actor Alan Alda received special honours at the event, which celebrates excellence in TV production outside the US. Brits win at International Emmys 2012-11-20T12:32:28Z And "The Cosby Show," I think, it did influence every single family sitcom that came afterward in the same way that Norman Lear brought us to "The Cosby Show." Ms. Pat on embracing life's darkness and friend Joe Rogan using the n-word: "We all make mistakes" 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z 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 There’s a Shakespearean grandeur to the deluded Borkman as he staggers shaggy-haired into the snow, speechifying to the night sky like Lear cast out into the storm. Dark Clouds Over London Stages 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z “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 Maybe it's time for Branagh to take on Macbeth or Lear. Kenneth Branagh: The star who forgot how to shine 2011-03-31T20:31:01Z But he’s doing Lear now, though not quite as Shakespeare intended, in “My Perfect Mind,” from the theater company Told by an Idiot, which opens at 59E59 Theaters next Tuesday. The King’s the Thing, Not the Play, for an Actor Who Would Be Lear 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z What saves it from starry-eyed fuzziness and grounds it in sociopolitical reality is Brown's clear-sighted anger and the astute perceptions of talking heads including Cornel West, Ice-T and Norman Lear. "GhettoPhysics" an awkward but sharp-eyed mashup 2010-10-06T01:14:00Z "It's not a coincidence," Lears added, "that Congress tends to skew wealthier than the American people, in addition to being older and whiter and male." "Knock Down the House" with AOC: New film offers a deeply humanizing portrait of a media obsession 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z 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 In the past, Mr. Petherbridge has played the Fool and the King of France in “Lear,” but after New Zealand, he still dreamed of giving the title role a try. The King’s the Thing, Not the Play, for an Actor Who Would Be Lear 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z 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 The strongest pathos that this “Lear” provokes is the feeling that she deserves better. Review: A ‘Lear’ With Hops, Spins and Posturing 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Evelyn Lear drew on her exceptional intelligence and theatrical imagination in a wide variety of roles. Evelyn Lear 2012-07-16T12:47:17Z 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 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 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 “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 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 You can also see why Lear inspires protective affection in his sidekick, the Fool. | 'King Lear': He?s a Grumpy Old Man, but Don?t Dare Run Away 2011-05-06T14:33:07Z 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 I wept copiously when Lear and the noble Cordelia found the peace of death in this punishing, cruel world. | 'King Lear': He?s a Grumpy Old Man, but Don?t Dare Run Away 2011-05-06T14:33:07Z If that weren't difficult enough, 1930s radio made Lear feel even more alienated. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z His Lear, however, has been trounced by the critics, as his mother slyly remarks soon after he first visits her. Movie Review: ‘The Eye of the Storm,’ With Geoffrey Rush 2012-09-06T22:03:02Z "Lear" needs the commitment of a theater and a director and an ensemble willing to work together over an extended period. With age, the wisdom of staging 'Lear' becomes less clear 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z 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 “I stomped around being Lear for months; of course he is just like a badly behaved adolescent!” Juliet Stevenson Returns to ‘The Doctor,’ and the New York Stage 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z But Lear’s descent from autocratic king to a battered man in the throes of madness registers only superficially. The Shakespeare Globe’s Informal ‘King Lear’ at the Skirball 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z “Nothing will come of nothing,” Shakespeare’s Lear darkly warns Cordelia in the opening scene. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z Lear's lithographs were so successful that in 1832 the president of London Zoo, Lord Stanley, hired Lear to draw the menagerie of birds and mammals at Knowsley Hall, near Liverpool. Two hundred years of nonsense 2012-05-22T07:39:49Z 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 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 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 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 “A lot of people think of Lear classically as being in some sort of medieval world where people wear rough-hewn clothes. I want the world to be recognisable – not recognisable physically, but psychologically.” From the Godfather to Shakespeare’s mad king – Al Pacino takes on Lear 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z The whole trajectory of Promised End leads to the scene between Lear and Gloucester, when one is mad and the other has no eyes. Alexander Goehr on his new King Lear opera, Promised End 2010-09-23T21:30:00Z "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 Previews for “Lear” are scheduled to begin on March 14. ArtsBeat: 2 More Plays Added for a Troupe’s New Home 2013-07-28T22:07:40Z The show, initially called “Those Were the Days,” was Lear’s adaptation of an English series called “Till Death Us Do Part,” about a working-class couple in east London who held reactionary and racist views. Jean Stapleton, 90, beloved Edith Bunker on ‘All in the Family,’ dies 2013-06-02T03:01:52Z Lear learned the fiendishly taxing role in just three weeks, successfully going on to take the part in London and elsewhere, and making a memorable recording of the work under Karl Böhm in 1968. Evelyn Lear 2012-07-16T12:47:17Z But a central paradox of “Lear,” one that English teachers are fond of explaining, is that out of blindness comes illumination. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ in an Enchanted Setting Along the Hudson River 2013-08-18T21:51:45Z Even while he focused on breaking new ground, however, Lear remained committed to comedy. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Shorn of the trappings of power, Mr. Feore’s Lear acquires a spiritual majesty that is in piteous contrast to his physical and psychological frailty. ‘King John’ and ‘King Lear’ at the Stratford Festival 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z He went on about Lady Macbeth, Desdemona, and so on, noting that he wasn’t like “Lear with blinded eyes.” “The Bells”: Lou Reed Out of Doors 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 And Lear’s Fool possessed ideal caregiver qualities: “loyalty, steadfastness, wit.” New in Paperback: ‘Why We Swim’ and ‘The End of October’ 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z “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 Yet ultimately, his Lear registers as less the protagonist of his tragedy than the most extreme embodiment of an all-corrupting political order. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z During a recent phone interview, De Shields discussed returning to Broadway, the importance of believability in storytelling and playing Lear a second time. André De Shields Isn’t Done With ‘King Lear’ (or ‘Hadestown’) 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Warchus, however, said that in watching her performing Lear, “not for a second did you think that this is someone’s swan song. It was the opposite. And she said to me, ‘What’s next Matthew? Glenda Jackson on Quitting Parliament, Playing Lear and Returning to Broadway 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z But it was indeed Anthony Hopkins, playing Lear for the first time since he appeared in the role in 1986 at London’s National Theater. Anthony Hopkins Returns to the Stage, if Only for a Movie 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Among Uglow’s most valuable and personal chapters are those devoted to Lear’s fantastic, in all senses, drawings and verse. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z "There are issues that are common to all of the constituencies of these four candidates, but there's also bridges of solidarity between communities," Lears said. "Knock Down the House" with AOC: New film offers a deeply humanizing portrait of a media obsession 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Calder, a stage veteran who was a memorable Lear several summers ago at Shakespeare’s Globe, brings a moving hesitancy to the role of the Elsinore mainstay who seems aware that his days are numbered. Theater Review: Hamlet in a T-Shirt 2010-10-12T11:19:00Z LBJ, I suggest, is the most Shakespearean of American presidents, a figure worthy of Lear and Falstaff, Caesar and Macbeth. ‘Every country has its fearmongers’ – Bryan Cranston on Trumbo and Hollywood’s blacklist 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z 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 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 Lear isn’t surprised that a sense of outrage and disillusionment has taken over — a Bunker mentality fused with a Meathead stridency, everyone digitally shouting one another into oblivion. Norman Lear put his foot down — and Trump’s White House flinched 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 But that mission has expanded, unearthing something as glorious as Lear deBessonet’s revival. ‘Into the Woods’ Review: Some Enchanted Evening 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Rehearsing Lear, Ian was like a fit dog gnawing at a bone. 'This is the best moment of my life,' he said, lying in the bath: Ian Holm remembered 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z “Lear” certainly puts that theory to the test. We’ll Never Have Paris 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z "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 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 No, the company has not revived the redemptive ending that reigned for much of the late 17th and early 18th century, in which Lear and Cordelia lived, more or less happily ever after. | 'King Lear' : The Old, Inexorable Story of a King?s Disintegration 2011-07-17T21:53:11Z People are always reminding you, “Shakespeare wrote ‘King Lear’ when he was under plague quarantine.” Zoom Galas and Vlogging 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z 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 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 But while it was unclear what Lear was laughing at, she couldn’t seem to stop herself as she finished the broadcast. BBC Presenter Laughs Uncontrollably During Weather Report 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Ms. Radvanovsky, who lives in Toronto, is encouraged in her dieting and operatic endeavors by her husband, Duncan Lear, a Canadian who travels with her and is her business manager. Critic?s Notebook: At the Met, a Soprano Ascendant 2011-04-19T21:15:09Z 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 Like the love of Lear’s life, who rejected him, the Lady Jingly Jones refuses the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo and the Jumbly Girl cruelly abandons the Dong with the Luminous Nose. For the art lover, the naturalist, the child in your life, a new book on Edward Lear 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Neuwirth admits to being a fan of nonsense, Edward Lear in particular, and this substantial, five-movement piece is certainly of the more elevated kind; indeed, its masterly delight in engineering intriguing musical collisions recalls Mahler. Prom 42: Philharmonia/Mälkki – review 2012-08-14T11:30:25Z “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 I regret having missed his Lear, some three decades later. No Matter the Role, Antony Sher Made Soaring Seem Possible 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z I sat in the back row of the Stratford balcony in the 1950s many times to see Olivier's Macbeth and Titus, Gielgud's Lear and Prospero and heard every syllable. The thrust of the problem for the RSC's new stage 2010-11-24T10:28:00Z 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’ 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 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 Disorder reigns after Lear divides his kingdom between his two grasping daughters, but Sher illuminates the reason in Lear’s madness with exquisite care for the meaning of every deranged utterance. London theater forecast after Brexit and Trump: Overcast skies with a chance of apocalypse 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z This production is unusually strong in suggesting the dysfunctional dynamics that operate among Lear’s daughters. Theater Review: ‘King Lear,’ With Michael Pennington, Opens in Brooklyn 2014-03-28T02:00:01Z Vance's memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" was released, and then it was announced that Reba McEntire was slated to star in a "Fried Green Tomatoes" television series, which will be directed by Norman Lear. From "Hillbilly Elegy" to "Fried Green Tomatoes," Hollywood has a rural perception problem 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z He took the idea to Lear, who wrote the script, setting the show in a blue-collar household in Queens. Bud Yorkin, innovative TV producer and director, dies at 89 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z He noted that during the reign of George III, a king afflicted with a mental malady reminiscent of Lear’s, the play “was withdrawn from the stage.” Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ The original hook for the Norman Lear sitcom "Maude" was that it was "All in the Family" with a liberal feminist as its center instead of a right-wing chauvinist. Chris Rock lights up 'Top Five,' a smart addition to comedian's act 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z Produced by Norman Lear, the series broke through the timidity of U.S. Jean Stapleton, TV’s Edith Bunker, Dies at 90 2013-06-01T21:24:50Z 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 And, if one's honest, there are times when Mount Lear, as a critic once called it, can seem as daunting a challenge to playgoers as to performers. King Lear - review 2010-12-08T00:05:00Z The lonely, lumpy child was transformed by her talent, and the evening, full of wonderful vignettes and speeches, reached a moving climax in the reconciliation scene of Lear with Cordelia. Lynn Redgrave obituary 2010-05-03T18:40:00Z 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 I like Lear for being very familial and political, as well as metaphysical. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z It's called Queen Lear and, as you might have guessed, it plays switcheroo with Shakespeare's king. Noises off: Is there any theatrical rev left in revivals? 2012-07-20T11:16:14Z The chaos of conflict and battle — "Lear" is nothing if not furiously contentious — should be working to strip away and distill. With age, the wisdom of staging 'Lear' becomes less clear 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z According to Tate’s version, Lear survives his foolish decisions and retakes his throne. Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z “It’s a season that’s equal parts hilarity, innovation and operatic scale,” Lear deBessonet, the artistic director of Encores!, a concert series that revives classic and rare musicals, said on Wednesday in a news release. Coming to City Center: ‘Pal Joey,’ ‘Titanic’ and the 20th Fall for Dance 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z After that, while the rest of the city slept, Lear stopped at a comedy club on Sunset Boulevard in hopes of finding Dave Chappelle, from whom he needed to ask a favor. Norman Lear put his foot down — and Trump’s White House flinched 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z ‘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 Both revivals are dominated by their stars and both have some trouble integrating their marquee Lears with the rest of their productions. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Both those albums were distributed under the Hear Music brand, a partnership between coffee chain Starbucks Corp and Concord, a jazz and R&B specialist co-owned by veteran TV producer Norman Lear. Paul McCartney to reissue catalog on indie label 2010-04-21T02:06:00Z This new show from Told By An Idiot, directed by Kathryn Hunter, melds Shakespeare's Lear with Petherbridge's experience and struggle to return to health, to tell a story of remarkable resilience and determination. This week's new theatre 2013-02-16T00:05:17Z Mr. Waterston’s Lear is only a fitful flame, always on the verge of being extinguished for good. | 'King Lear' : ?King Lear? at the Public Theater - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z Question 1: Name the three sisters in King Lear. Brush up your Shakespeare (in Love) 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z 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 Not that Jackson, a Tony winner last season for a revival of Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women,” isn’t an inspired choice for Lear. Review | Glenda Jackson as King Lear was a good idea. Why is everything around her so wrong? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Lear’s chief occupation, after all, is suffering, and pity motors the audience as much as terror through the painful marathon. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z This week’s episode features dispatches from Common, Lear and Dawson. TV highlights: ‘Marvel’s Luke Cage’ premieres on Netflix 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Today, at a moment when cultural discord seems to be escalating dangerously, Lear's steadfast progressive activism deserves to be celebrated. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z 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 While the factory scenes, shot at a Checker cab plant in Kalamazoo, Mich., have a documentary quality, fantasy is furnished by the Norman Lear TV sitcoms that punctuate the domestic scenes. In Paul Schrader’s ‘Blue Collar,’ the Factory Floor Is Brutal 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z "I remember watching his shows when I was young and being moved by them," Murphy said of Lear from his production office in Los Angeles. `Glee' producer Ryan Murphy to honor Norman Lear 2012-11-18T18:16:03Z 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 It was no accident because it had Norman Lear who chose the writers. Q&A: Rita Moreno on finding self-worth and never giving up 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z The hug exchanged between Lear and Amos at Wednesday’s curtain call therefore seemed poignant — maybe just a Hollywood hug, maybe something more significant all these years later. Review | ABC’s live ‘Good Times’ and ‘All in the Family’ try again to rekindle the magic of yesterday’s sitcoms 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z The performance lacks emotional thrust and stature; Lear’s towering rages often come across as indiscriminate shouting. The Shakespeare Globe’s Informal ‘King Lear’ at the Skirball 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z In his well-received 2014 memoir, “Even This I Get to Experience,” Lear writes of his euphoria on visits to Washington, how being in the White House makes him feel “a foot taller.” Norman Lear put his foot down — and Trump’s White House flinched 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z 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 Lear, 90, famously created the 1970s sitcom All in the Family, which looked at matters of race and women's rights. Brits win at International Emmys 2012-11-20T12:32:28Z In the early 2000s, Lear purchased an original copy of the U.S. Golden Globes to honor legendary TV producer Norman Lear 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z 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 Norman Lear will be honored with the Carol Burnett Award, a counterpart to the DeMille Award that focuses on life achievement in television. Phoenix, Erivo and ‘Barb and Star’ among Globes presenters 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z 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 Like so much else in this aggravating scrimmage of a “Lear,” the dimensions are off. Review | Glenda Jackson as King Lear was a good idea. Why is everything around her so wrong? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z In the bleak universe of “Lear,” though, the fearless soul in question is rewarded with sudden death. What Would Shakespeare Have Made of Donald Trump? 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Kemp, with her pell-mell charm and seductive scribbles, reminds me most of all of Edward Lear. In Praise of Whimsical English Design 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z 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 If you’re going to reference Lear, give me some treachery — or at least a storm. A Widow Takes Her Grown Kids on a Cruise. What Could Go Wrong? 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z 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 Wilson recounted joining Lear in Las Vegas to meet Foxx and watch his act: “I thought he was the funniest person, the most irreverently funny guy that I’d ever met in my life,” he said. ‘Sanford and Son’ at 50, ‘double-edged’ Black sitcom pioneer 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z “I didn’t have a Hamlet I needed to show you. Or a Lear.” Three suburban guys had a crazy dream: To make a sitcom. Then Ed Asner signed on. 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Lear’s got everything, which is why it was the greatest challenge. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z We also hear Lear’s complaint that it’s hard to apply for a research grant if the word “vampire” is anywhere in the proposal. Books of The Times: Life After Apocalypse in Justin Cronin?s ?Passage? 2010-06-06T21:22:00Z 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 “It’s not trailblazing to write the world as it actually is,” said the TV powerhouse, 46, while accepting the Norman Lear achievement award at the Producers Guild Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday. Shonda Rhimes Explains Why You Shouldn't Call Her a Trailblazer 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z The rich and powerful title figure in “The Jewish Queen Lear” gets steamrolled by her kids but pops back up for more abuse. Review | Does ‘The Jewish Queen Lear’ rage? In the Yiddish classic, she suffers. 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z That’s what this “Lear” is about: how blindly and instinctively we rely on our families, and how shocked and solitary we feel when that trust is betrayed. Theater Review: ‘King Lear,’ With Michael Pennington, Opens in Brooklyn 2014-03-28T02:00:01Z 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 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 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 It is in us, as you can see by reading Edward Lear or Walter de la Mare or Dr. Seuss to a very young child. Former poet laureate sees jazz everywhere in American culture 2010-10-12T20:39:00Z Like Lear, he has been betrayed by family, though here we have not a pair of wicked daughters, but one morally compromised brother. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2 Episode 9: The Brothers McGill 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 Lear was friends with all kinds of Republicans, starting with Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Norman Lear put his foot down — and Trump’s White House flinched 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z 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 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 Yet each was both artist and poet; each an outsider – Rosenberg a Jew, Lear an epileptic compelled to keep his seizures secret, even from his closest friends. Vivien Noakes obituary 2011-03-04T16:06:57Z In 2017, the Trumps announced in August that they wouldn’t attend after several honorees, including television producer Norman Lear, were critical of him. The Bidens will attend Sunday’s Kennedy Center Honors, restoring a tradition that Trump rejected 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Comparing TV in the seventies and TV today: Norman Lear. Saturday TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: 'The Graham Norton Show' 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z 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 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 After ABC rejected the show, Lear and Mr. Yorkin took it to CBS, which committed to only 13 episodes at first. Bud Yorkin, innovative TV producer and director, dies at 89 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Fueled by the positive reception and concerned about increasing hostility and divisiveness, Lear co-founded the nonprofit People for the American Way to fight right-wing extremism, devoting his creative genius to the organization. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z 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 Lear" early in his career: "I had just given this incredible audition as Edgar, if I do say so myself, but the director, Philip Lawrence, asked if I would be his stage manager instead. At 81, John Cullum relishes his two roles in Shakespeare in the Park 2011-06-19T03:42:04Z 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 Like the Lambs’ retellings, this “Lear” extracts a streamlined narrative essence from a play that often in production baffles audiences, with all the subterfuges, disguises and shifting allegiances. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ in an Enchanted Setting Along the Hudson River 2013-08-18T21:51:45Z 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 Working with Kermode gave Goehr the licence to focus on the aspects of Lear that most interested him, especially the journey Gloucester and Lear undertake. Alexander Goehr on his new King Lear opera, Promised End 2010-09-23T21:30:00Z Anthony Hopkins is ready for his “King Lear” — again. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘RBG’ and ‘King Lear’ 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z “There’s a little Laurel, of Laurel and Hardy, in him. A little Cary Grant in him. A little Astaire,” says Norman Lear, the “All in the Family” creator. At 95, Dick Van Dyke is still the consummate showman. And he’s desperate to get back onstage. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z But any serious thoughts Ms. Lee has about “Lear” remain wholly submerged in the Dada peculiarities of her play. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z Distanced from her own mother, she felt for the young Lear when, with his first seizure, his mother abandoned his care. Vivien Noakes obituary 2011-03-04T16:06:57Z “I loved Bill Tankersley — he was a terrific man, strong, sensible, articulate,” Mr. Lear said in a telephone interview on Tuesday. William H. Tankersley, Watchdog for CBS Taste Standards, Dies at 98 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z 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 Mr. Lear wrote in his memoir, “Even This I Get to Experience,” published this year. Ann Marcus, Writer for ‘Mary Hartman,’ Dies at 93 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Murphy closed Monday night's awards ceremony by presenting the 40th Anniversary Special Founders Award to "All in the Family" creator Lear and "M.A.S.H." star Alda. Alda, Lear honored at 40th International Emmys 2012-11-20T12:54:13Z Think of Lear staggering on with the body of his daughter, Agamemnon racing in on his chariot or Mary Tyrone drifting onstage in a morphine haze. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Making An Entrance 2012-07-05T16:52:58Z 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 His “Lear” is a forthright affair, unencumbered by high-concept interpolations and exceptionally clear in both its exposition and diction. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z 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 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 And got to Lear’s “Never, never, never, never, never.” Alice McDermott Is Reading ‘Frankenstein’ for the First Time 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z The poetry of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear – both also great favourites of my mother for our bedside reading – had the same effect on me. How Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories became music to my ears 2013-01-04T09:00:06Z Tickets for the show, directed by Lear deBessonet, will be distributed through a digital lottery. How Do You Stage Disney’s ‘Hercules’? Invite Everyone 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z “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 “No one owns you yet,” an advisor tells one of Lears’ running women, and it’s a sentiment that holds true for all of the film’s subjects. "Knock Down the House" review: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears in emotional, energetic doc 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z This year's Kennedy Center Honors recognizing outstanding artists and performers managed to skip the political drama that loomed over it earlier this year — just ask honoree Norman Lear. Kennedy Center Honors for L.L. Cool J, Gloria Estefan, Norman Lear 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z 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 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 Lear, the self-destructing creator of the most ill-conceived retirement plan in world literature, is hardly a likable man to begin with. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z And “Venus” is Ms. Parks’s portrayal of the 19th-century African woman who became known as the Hottentot Venus; it will be directed by Lear deBessonet. New Plays From Baker and Eno to Be in Signature Theater Season 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z In discussing “Lear,” she kept insisting that the play is not only about its title monarch. Glenda Jackson on Quitting Parliament, Playing Lear and Returning to Broadway 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z When Marcell's Lear explodes in Act 1 at Cordelia for not heaving her heart into her mouth, his wrath seems to come from nowhere. Globe's compact 'King Lear,' at the Broad, lacks needed heft 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z And, as so often with Lear, it is the simple things that affect one most. King Lear ? review 2011-03-11T00:02:03Z Lear was politically active off the screen and as a proponent of civic responsibility, which included buying a copy of the Declaration of Independence for a national tour of the document. TV legend Norman Lear credits journey to laughter, family 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z 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 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 They refer to other productions of “King Lear.” Review: A ‘Lear’ With Hops, Spins and Posturing 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Lears said she spoke to a few dozen candidates on the phone and decided to focus on these four women because their personal experiences and struggles mirrored those of millions of Americans across the country. "Knock Down the House" with AOC: New film offers a deeply humanizing portrait of a media obsession 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Any in-depth look at Lear's body of work would undoubtedly uncover a great many more shows that would speak to a present-day audience. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Some sneered at the enterprise’s commercialism, while the writer Charles Lamb lamented that the painters’ images of Juliet or Lear would “confine the illimitable” and supplant “my and everybody’s Shakespeare.” For a Shakespeare Anniversary, an Online Re-Creation of a 1796 Show 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z After a financial mishap, Lear’s family was forced to leave their home, and they dispersed. There Once Was a Man Who Felt Lonely: A Biographer Considers Edward Lear’s Art and Its Sources 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Yet along with his artistic skills, Lear possessed a genial surface personality that made him more than welcome at the country-house weekends of the well-born and well-to-do. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z 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 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 Scaling the summit of “King Lear” is, surely, GreenStage’s most ambitious current assignment. Outdoor Shakespeare done well 2013-07-19T17:38:50Z 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 It is a story that Mr. Lear shares, reluctantly but abundantly, in a memoir, “Even This I Get to Experience,” which Penguin Press will release on Oct. Norman Lear’s Memoir, ‘Even This I Get to Experience’ 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z The version that opened a two-week run at City Center on Wednesday, directed by Lear deBessonet, is certainly grimmer than any “Oliver!” ‘Oliver!’ Review: Tunes, Glorious Tunes, in a Grimly Cheerful Revival 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z “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 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 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 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 Mr. Beale is never better than in his scenes with Mr. Scarborough, as the Fool teases Lear into disconcerted flashes of self-awareness. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z 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 Cordelia and Lear go off happily, and the baddies get punished, and they all live happily ever after. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z When I asked him to play Lear in 1996 he had hardly been on stage for 15 years and had not played Shakespeare for 35 years. 'This is the best moment of my life,' he said, lying in the bath: Ian Holm remembered 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 "Some of Kelly's gestures towards Lear are clever," says Henry Hitchings of the Evening Standard, which is as good as his review gets. What to say about ... The Gods Weep | Leo Benedictus 2010-03-22T12:09:00Z “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 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 This Lear looks mighty, adorned with heavy gold ornaments like a hip-hop Cousin Itt, and with an obedient court at his beck and call. Review: A ‘King Lear’ in Which You Feel for All the Daughters 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z “The party has been stretched and stretched,” said Marty Kaplan, the Norman Lear professor of entertainment, media and society at the University of Southern California and a former studio executive. It Was the Hottest Oscar Night Party. What Happened? 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Jonathan Lear, who helped hire Kimhi at Yale, says that to hear Kimhi talk is to experience “living philosophy, the real thing.” Unpublished and Untenured, a Philosopher Inspired a Cult Following 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 The Fool played by Ron Cook deserves applause as a white-faced arbiter of doom, an onlooker and confidant to Lear who long ago gave up on being funny and now just wants to be heard. On the London Stage: Derek Jacobi's Close-Up 'King Lear' 2010-12-14T15:50:02Z This year, the director Lear deBessonet and the composer Todd Almond will present their take on Homer’s “The Odyssey” in a Public Works production running Sept. 4 to 7. Public Theater Season Will Feature New Musicals by LaChiusa and Stew 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z 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 Lear passed his later years in San Remo, Italy, with a tailless cat and a loyal servant, dying at age 75. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z It was while touring the show that Hemsley was approached by Lear about playing a character on the sitcom that would become "All in the Family." Sherman Hemsley of TV's "The Jeffersons" dies 2012-07-25T03:38:08Z The grotesquely violent diatribes that the characters sometimes hurl at each other parody the vicious language Lear heaps on his ungrateful daughters, for instance. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z It is again directed by Lear deBessonet, the Encores! artistic director. A Starry ‘Into the Woods’ Will Play Broadway This Summer 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z They just saw him on TV shows and didn’t realize he was doing “Lear” or “Merchant of Venice” as he was doing that. Director Morgan Neville on “They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead” and the last years of Orson We... 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z 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 Even the usually angelic Cordelia, Lear’s youngest daughter, shows up toting a rifle and wearing camouflage fatigues. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z Not that the characters of every “Lear” have to wear business suits and cocktail dresses. Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ 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 "The tragic element is that he was ultimately forced, like Lear, to see the limits of his ambition to remake his world." A portrait of Gandhi's growth as social reformer 2011-03-29T17:01:04Z This was the age of Edward Lear’s limericks and Lewis Carroll’s Alice. It Was a Dark and Stormy Style 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z A year later, Jack White produced her wildly popular album "Van Lear Rose," which won a Grammy. By turning straw into gold records, Loretta Lynn helped me love where I come from 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z As Ocasio-Cortez’s star continued to rise, Lears found herself at the center of something big and vital and thrilling: a real-life underdog story. Knock Down the House: behind the year's most rousing political documentary 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z 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 The two other Lear sisters are intermittently psychotic and lustful, and get their comeuppances. Are Shakespeare's women second-class citizens? 2012-07-19T11:09:28Z Mr. Lear left television around the time his first wife, Frances, separated from him. Review: About Norman Lear, Who Gave Us Archie Bunker 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 This is the version you take “Lear” virgins to, knowing they won’t become confused, even when the title character is ranting in seemingly nonsensical poetry. | 'King Lear': He?s a Grumpy Old Man, but Don?t Dare Run Away 2011-05-06T14:33:07Z One sketch of a thrush survives with Lear’s notes to himself on how to transform the rough image into a work of avian beauty: “More graceful . . . make the head smaller . . . eye greener . . . plumes very silky.” For the art lover, the naturalist, the child in your life, a new book on Edward Lear 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Edward Lear was born in 1812, the 20th of 21 children. For the art lover, the naturalist, the child in your life, a new book on Edward Lear 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Mark Zuckerberg may be a greater influence on “Modern Family” than Norman Lear is. This Life: What ?Modern Family? Says About Modern Families 2011-01-21T21:20:03Z For Ms. Arbus is here to remind us just how much “Lear” is a story not only of dynasty but also of families, with all their mixed-up rivalries and affections. Theater Review: ‘King Lear,’ With Michael Pennington, Opens in Brooklyn 2014-03-28T02:00:01Z It wasn’t until the line, “O, let me not be mad” late in the first act that I believed a word of what Jackson’s Lear was saying. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 Fans of this sitcom — a remake of Norman Lear’s original — were up in arms last year when Netflix canceled the show after three seasons. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘One Day at a Time’ and ‘Council of Dads’ 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Lear, as you may know, expects to be taken care of by those two elder daughters after he gives up the crown. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ in an Enchanted Setting Along the Hudson River 2013-08-18T21:51:45Z 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 Al Pacino would either be the greatest Lear in recent memory or the most embarrassing. Searching for the next King Lear: A critic shares his casting notes 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z When he tells them what zero means, Lear says, “If I have nothing, surely I need no mark of it” and the queen says, “Can you not leave a space?” Review | In ‘A Thousand Acres,’ I killed Lear’s wife. A new novel has better plans for her. 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z “I started this process working with the organizations Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats to get in contact with the people that they were considering supporting,” Lears tells the Guardian. Knock Down the House: behind the year's most rousing political documentary 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z The defining shows of the 1970s — Norman Lear’s “All in the Family,” “Maude” and “The Jeffersons” — tackled grittier fare, from infidelity to racism. This Life: What ?Modern Family? Says About Modern Families 2011-01-21T21:20:03Z 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 “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 There are lessons to be gleaned about creativity and longevity from “Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You,” Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s assured documentary portrait of that influential television producer. Review: About Norman Lear, Who Gave Us Archie Bunker 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z 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 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 The Victorian Era was the great period of nature illustration, and as Lear shuffled from relative to family friend to relative, he honed his skills as a draftsman. There Once Was a Man Who Felt Lonely: A Biographer Considers Edward Lear’s Art and Its Sources 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z 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 Foucheux was already slated to play Gloucester, Lear’s loyal friend and another troubled father, to Alan Wade’s Lear for a George Washington University production in March. Rick Foucheux paints a possible stage exit with an intimate ‘King Lear’ 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z In a statement, Mr. Lear recalled starting his partnership with Mr. Yorkin in 1959, the year Mr. Yorkin produced and directed a show with Fred Astaire that won multiple Emmy Awards. Bud Yorkin, Writer and Producer of ‘All in the Family,’ Dies at 89 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z His father, Carl, was one of the biggest figures in US TV in the mid 20th century and Mel Brooks, Sid Caesar and Norman Lear were all regular guests in the Reiner home. 'I want everyone to be happy': how Rob Reiner became a great director – and a political hero 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z And Ron Cook's Fool is as remarkable in his silences, when he gazes on Lear with powerless compassion, as in his rebarbative, conscience-stabbing jests. King Lear - review 2010-12-08T00:05:00Z Lear has a theory about why slime is effective with her clients. Slime is everywhere. It’s everywhere. Slime is everywhere. 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z According to a 2009 news item, the then-married Brand and Perry used the nicknames “Owl” and “Pussycat” for each other, in reference to the 19th-century poem by Edward Lear, “The Owl and the Pussycat.” Katy Perry’s “Unconditionally” Video: That Owl! 2013-11-15T19:48:52Z Even from the intimate distance of the third row, Mr. Farr’s fog-shrouded “Lear” comes across as cool, considered and professional but rarely moving. | 'King Lear' : The Old, Inexorable Story of a King?s Disintegration 2011-07-17T21:53:11Z This savage Lear becomes pathetic without ever truly being heartbreaking. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z As a social activist, Lear founded advocacy organization People for the American Way. Golden Globes to honor legendary TV producer Norman Lear 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Harwood, 81, who was at the Hackney Empire to watch the filming of the “Lear” scenes, said that since the play’s premiere barely a day passed without a performance somewhere in the world. Anthony Hopkins Returns to the Stage, if Only for a Movie 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z 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 again, hopefully the organization will be inspired by the example set by Norman Lear, this year's winner of its Carol Burnett Award. The Golden Globes' cringey attempts at diversity signaling was a joke 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z It’s often thought that actors who are the right age to play Lear don’t possess the stamina for it, but such thoughts are quickly quelled here. Review: Glenda Jackson Rivets as King Lear in Her Return to the Stage 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z 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 "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 There’s no “Lear” without Lear, and Mr. Jacobi meets the part as if confirming a date with destiny, his youthful face and scampering eyes at useful odds with his chronological years. On the London Stage: Derek Jacobi's Close-Up 'King Lear' 2010-12-14T15:50:02Z Lear includes representational elements, sometimes depicting homes or interiors. In the galleries: simplicity, spontaneity and the beauty of imperfection 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z 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 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 Finally, the Kennedy Center Honors’ 2017 recipients included Norman Lear, who announced he’s declining to appear at the reception hosted by President Trump. Essential Arts & Culture: Hamlet as a teen? Plus a conductor's surprising exit, Shepard, Saarinen and more 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z And while I was often intrigued and stimulated by Mr. Langella’s Lear, I was only occasionally moved. Theater Review: Frank Langella, Roaring at Defiance in ‘King Lear’ 2014-01-17T03:00:02Z Both are divisive — in Lear’s case literally, slicing up his kingdom like a pizza. It’s Time to Turn the Page on the Trump-Shakespeare Comparisons 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z 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 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 People say “these two shows were meant for the ’70s and would not work today,” Lear said in a statement. ‘All in the Family,’ ‘Jeffersons’ rebooted for live special 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z His crisp British diction and classical technique elevate his Lear to kingly status, making his comedown by ungrateful offspring a steep tumble indeed. Outdoor Shakespeare done well 2013-07-19T17:38:50Z When Roxy Roker was cast in the role of Helen, Lear took her aside to warn her about the firestorm that would no doubt ensue. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z According to Tobias Lear, Hercules was visibly upset that Washington would even suspect him of such betrayal. The man who fed the first president — and hungered for freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z "He was a love of a guy" and "immensely talented," said Norman Lear, producer of "The Jeffersons" and "All in the Family," after learning of his death. Sherman Hemsley of TV's "The Jeffersons" dies 2012-07-25T03:38:08Z 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 Lex, a student of the newsstand, once arranged them all on a table to show us what we were up against: Spy, Smart, Manhattan Inc., Lear’s, 7 Days, Egg, Fame, Sassy, Taxi, Spin. Wigwag: The Magazine That Lex Built 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Reimann is a musical thinker of the highest calibre, but his “Lear” does not reveal a distinctly personal style. We’ll Never Have Paris 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 Lear's riotous knights are evoked by distant braying horns and voices. King Lear - review 2010-12-08T00:05:00Z And perhaps because Ms. Warner has twice previously directed “Lear,” she communicates a feeling for the play from the inside out. Review: Glenda Jackson Rivets as King Lear in Her Return to the Stage 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z 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 "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 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 Little remains of Lear's legacy but cursing, innuendo, and the sound of flushing toilets. Why "All in the Family" still matters 2011-01-12T15:01:00Z This, we gather, is one of Lear's dangerous little jokes: one of many in a production that teases constantly at our expectations. King Lear – review 2012-05-23T16:13:48Z The final scene of Lear is almost hopelessly grim. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z It ended with the New York premiere of Steven Stucky’s “Skylarks,” written in 2001, his feisty settings of six varied poems, including a haiku, Emily Dickinson’s elusive “Split the Lark” and some Edward Lear drivel. Music Review: New Amsterdam Singers, Led by Clara Longstreth 2012-06-03T22:15:08Z As one of Lear’s daughters says, “The best and soundest of his time hath been but rash.” Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z There may also be a suggestion of jester; that Jeremy Clarkson plays at the News Corp court the role filled by Fool for the Lear whom Murdoch Sr increasingly resembles. TV matters: The Clarkson Connection 2011-07-20T21:00:01Z “Let me not be mad,” Ms. Jackson’s Lear remarks, a pair of fine-boned hands swooping up to clutch at her head in alarm. Review: Glenda Jackson Rivets as King Lear in Her Return to the Stage 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Brownstein details the fights that Black actors had with Norman Lear to hire Black writers and directors. Why Did Los Angeles Become a Cultural Mecca in the Early 1970s? 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z But with Browning and Lear it gets more complicated. Dickens, Browning and Lear: what's in a reputation? 2012-05-17T13:17:32Z 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 That was in the opening scene, in which Lear divides his kingdom and which is presented in the style of a Soviet show trial. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z Kenya Barris, "black-ish" creator, credits ABC for being "diligent in letting us do issue-related comedy. It sort of hearkens back to the time of Norman Lear, when comedy actually opened up conversations." Unlike Oscars, 2015 Emmys have diverse shows, actors to recognize 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Lear was born in London in 1812, the second to last member of an absolutely enormous family. There Once Was a Man Who Felt Lonely: A Biographer Considers Edward Lear’s Art and Its Sources 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z 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 Much of the first two episodes of "Cristela" feels dishearteningly retro — didn't we solve most of these issues long ago with "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and the works of Norman Lear? 'Cristela' aims to bust stereotypes with laughs, but ... 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z 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 Together, they inaugurated the Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart Emerging Singers Programme in conjunction with the Wagner Society of Washington DC, set up to assist aspiring Wagnerian singers early in their careers. Evelyn Lear 2012-07-16T12:47:17Z “Van Lear Rose” won two Grammy Awards and was ranked among the best albums of 2004, both in country music publications and in magazines like Spin and Rolling Stone that cater to rock audiences. Loretta Lynn, Country Music Star and Symbol of Rural Resilience, Dies at 90 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z 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 “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 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 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 Lear cries in agony toward the end of the play that bears his name. ‘We Are Not Ourselves’ is a rendering of the effect of Alzheimer’s on one family Today, Mr. Lear said, he finds it difficult to see his influence in a contemporary prime-time network TV schedule, partly because he is not a big TV viewer. Norman Lear’s Memoir, ‘Even This I Get to Experience’ 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z As we head into a US presidential election putting white male septuagenarians against each other, Rachel Lears’s sparky, motivating documentary is a helpful reminder that there is a younger, more diverse future for American politics. 20 must-see documentaries to explain the world in 2020 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z “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 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 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 Cambridge is partly responsible for the genesis of Promised End, and for Goehr's turning to Lear for inspiration. Alexander Goehr on his new King Lear opera, Promised End 2010-09-23T21:30:00Z If you couldn’t see Lear on stage, this would be a very good substitute. Ian McKellen’s favourite Shakespeare roles on film 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Peck, described as “a naturalist, writer, and historian with a special interest in the intersection of science and art,” knows his stuff, having curated an exhibition of Lear’s paintings at Harvard’s Houghton Library. For the art lover, the naturalist, the child in your life, a new book on Edward Lear 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z 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 Mr. Lear said he won the battle over the ordinarily objectionable expression when he challenged Mr. Tankersley to come up with a better line and Mr. Tankersley was unable to and so gave in. William H. Tankersley, Watchdog for CBS Taste Standards, Dies at 98 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z 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 The man I play is one who is obsessed with the art and obsessed with Lear.” Anthony Hopkins: 'Every day I think about quitting' 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z “Not every show was a critical hit, but it was a successful year in terms of what was planned and what Lear hoped to do, and it wound up with a bang,” Witten said. New York City Center Taps Veteran Arts Administrator as Its Next Head 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z But unlike Lear she is a mother; Colin, though often rough and gross, is in Nick Holder’s wonderful portrayal surprisingly babyish and dainty underneath. Review: Holding Hands With the Homeless, in ‘Love’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Lears and her team pushed to edit the footage as quickly as possible to get it ready for its Sundance premiere. "Knock Down the House" with AOC: New film offers a deeply humanizing portrait of a media obsession 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z 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 They’re immersed in the book, and I had only a hazy recollection of it, so I reread it, and it’s riddled with references to Lear. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Small-screen giant Lear was honored as a television icon and a liberal lion who has fought for progressive causes on and off the airwaves. At the Kennedy Center Honors, plenty of politics make up for Trump’s playing hooky 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z It’s tempting to say that if you don’t love the poetry of Edward Lear, you’ve missed something essential about what makes poetry worth loving in the first place. There Once Was a Man Who Felt Lonely: A Biographer Considers Edward Lear’s Art and Its Sources 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z “The cocky energy of the guy was totally in sync with the offstage image we had created of George,” Mr. Lear later said. Sherman Hemsley, Star of ‘The Jeffersons’ Dies at 74 2012-07-25T05:07:18Z 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 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 It’s hard to imagine a “Lear” without this signature display of barbarity. Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ He’s so familiar with Lear — he studied the text intensely as a young man — that in conversation, he effortlessly recites from the play verbatim. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z 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 In the early 1970s, the television producer Norman Lear gave her perhaps her biggest break since her MGM days with a role in “All in the Family.” Betty Garrett, Antsy Cabby in ?On the Town,? Is Dead at 91 2011-02-14T04:23:04Z Mr. Lear, the sitcom maestro of the era, produced a suite of shows like this: “All in the Family,” “Good Times,” “Sanford and Son.” Review: The 2017 Class Divide in a New ‘One Day at a Time’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z “I’ll try and keep it together because it’s not a laughing matter with the weather in Scotland today,” Lear said as she wiped away tears of laughter. BBC Presenter Laughs Uncontrollably During Weather Report 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z 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 The speeches in Lear were meant to be spoken not sung, and the wrought arioso of Goehr's vocal writing is no substitute for their meaning and expressive power. Promised End 2010-10-10T20:31:00Z Love is all Lear has in the end. With age, the wisdom of staging 'Lear' becomes less clear 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z She has a flattering unisex haircut and dons a red vest that is exchanged for a softer, less militaristic red cardigan after Lear’s royal prerogative shatters. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 In our flinching, we sometimes resemble Lear, later on in the Act: “O, that way madness lies; let me shun that.” Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z 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 The Athenian woods will be a little less populous when Lear deBessonet’s Shakespeare in the Park production for the Public Theater finishes its run. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z 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 The elder Lear, known as H. K., was a self-assured schemer who was jailed in 1931 for trying to sell fake bonds, and who, after his release, remained a domineering influence in young Norman’s life. Norman Lear’s Memoir, ‘Even This I Get to Experience’ 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z It is possible that while there he wrote King Lear and Macbeth. What happened to Shakespeare's theatres? 2014-04-23T06:29:19Z "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 Now who is the Lear of your dreams? Searching for the next King Lear: A critic shares his casting notes 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Kate Lear, the chairwoman of its board, said in a statement. Ballet Hispanico Consolidates Leadership Roles, With Eduardo Vilaro as Chief Executive 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z 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 Even so, it was hard to view Sundance’s opening film, a documentary about the television legend Norman Lear, without the Academy outcry as a backdrop. Sundance Officially Sidesteps Oscar Controversy, but Its Opening Film Doesn’t 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z When she showed up for the first day of rehearsals of “Lear,” she had already memorized her lines. Glenda Jackson on Quitting Parliament, Playing Lear and Returning to Broadway 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z But Lear is still here, Marla Gibbs is still here and the reruns will always be here. Review | Archie Bunker and George Jefferson meet again, but the sparks don’t exactly fly 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z It was only in the middle ’70s with this Norman Lear TV show “All’s Fair,” that we got a positive view of cohabitation. Live in sin, break the law 2012-07-01T19:00:00Z Explicit political partisanship seldom works well on screen, said Marty Kaplan, director of the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California. Trump v Hollywood? Don't expect to see the culture war play out on screen 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z By such advantageous economizing does this “Lear” benefit. A well-played, compact ‘King Lear’ at Folger Theatre A World War II vet who flew 52 combat missions, Lear is still making comedy. At the Kennedy Center Honors, plenty of politics make up for Trump’s playing hooky 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z The Lear touch is evident on the new “One Day at a Time,” which weaves the topical and the familial. Norman Lear put his foot down — and Trump’s White House flinched 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z 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 Perhaps that sense of emotional ruthlessness was what made him such a brilliant Lear. 'This is the best moment of my life,' he said, lying in the bath: Ian Holm remembered 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z 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 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 Lear toiled as a television writer throughout the repressed 1950s and early 1960s, becoming a gifted technical craftsman who mastered the form. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Yet in the juicy roles of Lear’s conniving elder daughters, each misfires in a different way. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z His portrait of an age-gnarled Lear is rendered with exacting physical precision that suggests both the peasant stock and ruthlessness of his character’s past. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z Except for the comparatively more exuberant “Hamlet,” there have been more productions of “Lear” here during this period than of any other play or musical. Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ Despite Lear’s example, television immediately filled that void with yuppified sitcoms in which characters lived inwardly, in apathetic bliss and enviable creature comforts. Perspective | Rebooted Roseanne is a proud ‘deplorable.’ Can she be the Trump era’s Archie Bunker? 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z The opening panorama – a painfully slow tracking shot of peasants trudging towards Lear’s castle – is one of the great set pieces of Shakespearean cinema. The best Shakespeare films – ranked! 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Ms. Jackson used her casting as Lear to speak out on an issue that has long been important to her: the limited opportunities available to actresses, particularly older ones. Glenda Jackson Hopes to Scale Mount Lear in Her Stage Return 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z “To play the fool to Olivier’s Lear is sort of quite a moment in one’s life,” Hurt said. John Hurt receives Shakespeare Theatre Company’s annual award To continue the gender flip, King Lear’s children are portrayed by men. Dance Listings for Feb. 12-18 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z “There was a process of communication getting a little less direct,” Lears recalls. Knock Down the House: behind the year's most rousing political documentary 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z From the beginning we have known that we would perform “Lear” only 24 times. 'Learning' Lear: Places, Please, for Opening Night 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z 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 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 In her staging of “Lear,” for instance, the aging king’s family must deal with his worsening dementia. How Pasadena's A Noise Within theater troupe builds a future on the past 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 “I think the culture stereotypes everything,” Norman Lear says. Review: ‘If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast’ Finds Vigor After 90 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z Lear's journey from megalomania through madness and humiliation to final self-knowledge is one of the most demanding parts ever written, and few actors get a go at it. Stockton International Riverside Festival, Liolà, King Lear: what to see at the theatre this week 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z This is not, of course, to cast aspersions on the piece itself, as sprawling and enigmatic as any in the canon: The nature of Lear’s madness is a transfixing, sleep-disturbing riddle for the ages. Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ Younger artists, including Rachel Bloom of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” and Kenya Barris, the creator of “Blackish,” described both the influence of Lear’s art and activism. At the Kennedy Center Honors, plenty of politics make up for Trump’s playing hooky 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Taking place on Christopher Oram’s white-stained, bare-boards set — which summons thoughts of the “wooden O” of the stage described in “Henry V” — this “Lear” has been denuded of royal panoply and pageantry. | 'King Lear': He?s a Grumpy Old Man, but Don?t Dare Run Away 2011-05-06T14:33:07Z 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 At the end, there was an appearance by that fascinatingly wacky French character Amanda Lear, wearing a pink bathing suit. On the Runway Blog: Gaultier Pays Tribute to '80s Pop Stars 2012-09-29T20:29:11Z 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 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 Norman Lear tells the mother of all Jewish-mother anecdotes, and it bears repeating in print even though it’s certainly funnier in person. Norman Lear sits down with Salon: “Trump is the middle finger of the American right hand” 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z "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 I think it was really the ‘Lear’ that attracted me. Anthony Hopkins Returns to the Stage, if Only for a Movie 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Playwright Young Jean Lee’s 2009 dissection of the motives and psychosexual dilemmas of the progeny who drive the Bard’s towering masterwork isn’t so much a deconstruction; neither Lear nor Gloucester appear, for starters. Young Jean Lee's risky, intriguing riff on 'Lear' at City Garage 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z 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 The sorry events that follow here seem personally upsetting because you’re so aware that none of this would have happened if Lear had thought before he spoke. Theater Review: ‘King Lear,’ With Michael Pennington, Opens in Brooklyn 2014-03-28T02:00:01Z Still, his internal reactions are vivid, right up to the final donning of whiteface to play Lear. Black actor cast in a traditionally white role? 'Red Velvet' explores what happens next 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Taneja’s Lear is Devraj, and the kingdom he’s dividing is the Company, which is in the business of business: manufacturing, government contracting, hotels, real estate, you name it. A Novelist Recasts King Lear as a Corporate Tycoon in Contemporary India 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z 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 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 “Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary / To sweeten my imagination. There’s money for thee,” says Lear. 'This is the best moment of my life,' he said, lying in the bath: Ian Holm remembered 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z “What I liked about Richard’s ‘Lear’ was the lack of lack of ceremony, no kowtowing and bowing. Anthony Hopkins Returns to ‘King Lear,’ Finally Up to the Challenge 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z But Lear was modest as he accepted the Carol Burnett Award for his decades of achievement — and the decades themselves — at Sunday’s virtual Golden Globes ceremony. TV legend Norman Lear credits journey to laughter, family 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z It means Domingo brings something of Otello to the role, and even, in his despair, a glimpse of the Lear that Verdi longed to write but never did. Nabucco – review 2013-04-16T16:07:34Z 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 This pocket “Lear,” which begins Thursday, brings Foucheux full circle, back to his acting roots in the 1980s, before the city’s companies upgraded their rough stages and a unionized gloss became the norm. Rick Foucheux paints a possible stage exit with an intimate ‘King Lear’ 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z The year before, CBS had premiered Norman Lear’s “All in the Family,” a battlefield dispatch from an American living room. ‘M*A*S*H’ at 50: War Is Hell(arious) 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Lear too is at the mercy of the storm. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z Norman Lear will be honored for his television career and accept an award named after Carol Burnett. At bicoastal Globes on Sunday, ‘Borat’ could triumph 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z 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 This means that Mr. Lithgow’s Lear more or less goes mad in a vacuum. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z She had appeared only sporadically on television until producer Norman Lear tapped her for a guest role on "All in the Family" in 1971. 'Golden Girl' Rue McClanahan dies 2010-06-03T16:12:00Z Lear does not have to be King of England. David Thomson: the importance of supporting actors 2010-07-01T21:45:00Z Ms. Warner’s “Lear” has been minimally cut and runs almost three and a half hours, but her star had memorized her lines before rehearsals began. Glenda Jackson Hopes to Scale Mount Lear in Her Stage Return 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 For once, when Lear complains that he is “more sinned against than sinning,” you believe him. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Norman Lear helped define the American sitcom through developing “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons,” among others. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘A Tale of Two Kitchens’ and ‘The Wrestlers’ 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z And by the time Lear reaches his fabled end, Ms. Jackson dragged in on a tarpaulin for the character’s final scene, the question that surrounded this staging in advance has long been answered. Review: Glenda Jackson Rivets as King Lear in Her Return to the Stage 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z The latter was rebooted in 2017 by Lear and a new team of producers, this time with the focus on a Latino family. TV legend Norman Lear credits journey to laughter, family 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z Besides Ms. Setterfield, the cast numbers just three: the three men who play Lear’s daughters. Review: A ‘Lear’ With Hops, Spins and Posturing 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z I'd always loved Edward Lear, and I became fascinated with Victorian children's literature, discovering people such as Charles Causley and Robert Graves. Bard reputation: pop stars pick their favourite poets 2010-10-07T15:52:00Z 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 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 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 Lear requires more ruminative silence as the aging monarch is forced to confront the helpless man too long hidden by opulent finery. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z And despite boundless advantages and allowances, Trump echoes Lear’s whiny complaint: “I am a man more sinned against than sinning.” Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z 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 Without giving too much away, I would like to point out that shortly thereafter, in a scene not in the original text, Lear commits an unspeakable act of violence, and not against himself. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z Certainly, Lear’s voyage into the dark has never felt lonelier. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z 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 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 How will Jackson’s ethical principles inform her Lear? London theater forecast after Brexit and Trump: Overcast skies with a chance of apocalypse 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z 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 Ms. Moreno landed the gig after being seated next to Norman Lear, the longtime television writer and producer, at the Imagen Awards a few years ago. Rita Moreno Mixes Up a Carnival in the Kitchen 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z "What I learned from my own family life was that there was nothing like a relative with an ancient grudge," Lear said. Bea Arthur took 'Maude' out of 'Family's' shadow 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z While Hamlet is considered the ultimate young actor role, Lear is regarded in a similar way for older actors. Frank Langella to take on role of King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre 2013-06-20T05:00:00Z 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 At the end, as Lear howled in grief for a dead daughter, I suspected there wasn’t a moist eye in the house. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z 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 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 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 Lear called his elderly mother to tell her of this honor, and there was a long silence at the other end of the line. Norman Lear sits down with Salon: “Trump is the middle finger of the American right hand” 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z 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 Last year NBC canceled “The Carmichael Show,” an inspired throwback to the era of politically charged Norman Lear sitcoms like “All in the Family” and “Good Times,” after three seasons. Lil Rel Howery and Jerrod Carmichael Think You’re Wrong About Multicamera Sitcoms 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z One of Mount Vernon’s character interpreters, Matt Mattingly, who appears as George Washington’s secretary Tobias Lear, researched infectious diseases during colonial times, and found documents about a yellow fever outbreak. At tourist sites, masking up without diluting the experience 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z As much as the members of the religious right have vilified him, those on the left have always seen Lear differently. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Trey Parker, who is the creator and producer of the Comedy Central animated series “South Park” with Matt Stone, said Mr. Lear’s work had an immeasurable impact on that show and its satirical, sacred-cow-slaughtering sensibility. Norman Lear’s Memoir, ‘Even This I Get to Experience’ 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z 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 Lear will receive the Carol Burnett Award during the 78th annual ceremony on Feb. 28, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Thursday. Golden Globes to honor legendary TV producer Norman Lear 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z 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 It's a strange little tale, which shows many of the characteristics of Reimann's next opera, Lear, the work that really put him on the international map seven years later. Reimann: Melusine 2010-08-19T21:30:00Z He didn't get the part but "Cold Turkey" director Norman Lear remembered him when he created "Maude." Conrad Bain of 'Diff'rent Strokes' dead at 89 2013-01-16T18:38:13Z Mercurial, brilliant, witty, Lear was profoundly English, as was his contemporary, Lewis Carroll, who created his own strange and wonderful world and a very whimsical language to go with it. In Praise of Whimsical English Design 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z The decision by de Lavallade and Lear is a pure form of the more calculating ones made by the business executives who fled from presidential advisory boards over the past week and a half. Perspective | Will Trump’s bowing out of Kennedy Center Honors do lasting damage to the arts? 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z There’s always quite a strong bond between the actor who plays Lear and the young actor who plays Cordelia. 'This is the best moment of my life,' he said, lying in the bath: Ian Holm remembered 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z “Lear” is a very long play; this incarnation, which clocks in at a fairly concise three hours, goes by relatively quickly. A well-played, compact ‘King Lear’ at Folger Theatre Thank you Mr. Lear for being a television innovator and presenting us characters that we will likely never see again. Review: About Norman Lear, Who Gave Us Archie Bunker 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z 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 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 Ms. McClanahan had been appearing sporadically on television and in low-budget movies when Norman Lear tapped her for a spot on “All in the Family” in 1972. Rue McClanahan, 76, Actress and Golden Girl, Dies 2010-06-04T00:55:00Z 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 Lear, who met Murphy for the first time in person at a luncheon earlier in the day, said he felt deeply that "the world needs to come together and will come together through the arts." Alda, Lear honored at 40th International Emmys 2012-11-20T12:54:13Z Recounting the creation of his book over a recent breakfast in Midtown Manhattan, Mr. Lear said, “I began to realize how hard it had been to be a human being.” Norman Lear’s Memoir, ‘Even This I Get to Experience’ 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Patience is, for Lear, the opposite of a virtue, at least as we see him in the opening scene, when he announces his intention of turning over his kingdom to his three daughters. | 'King Lear': He?s a Grumpy Old Man, but Don?t Dare Run Away 2011-05-06T14:33:07Z 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 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 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 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 Asked if it was too glib to say that the larger-than-life H. K. directly inspired self-assured characters like Archie Bunker or Maude Findlay, Mr. Lear replied, “I don’t think it’s too glib at all.” Norman Lear’s Memoir, ‘Even This I Get to Experience’ 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Earlier this week, I spoke with Lear about the true meaning of irony, and how it might be developed in order to evaluate and exorcise the problems of America’s political culture. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z 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 He also said Lear’s work “revolutionized the industry.” Golden Globes to honor legendary TV producer Norman Lear 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z 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 “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 "The message is the world better pay attention," Lear said, adding that achieving the goals is critical for survival. UN chief enlists Hollywood star power to end poverty 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z 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 The tears he shed for the Pope were those of someone overwhelmed; when he retired, there was a touch of Lear—“that we are come to this great stage of fools.” The Tears of Brett Kavanaugh 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Lear, who produced television series like “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons” was the recipient of the Pioneer Award. Arts, Briefly: Awards for Jennifer Lopez and Norman Lear 2014-04-13T21:34:58Z Mr. Lear helped popularize the modern incarnation of the multicam comedy, with shows like “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons.” Review: The Euphoria of ‘One Day at a Time’ 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z “For those of us who write and create entertainment for a living, Norman Lear is a hero. For those of us who care about our fellow human beings, Norman is a superhero,” he said. At the Kennedy Center Honors, plenty of politics make up for Trump’s playing hooky 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks,” Lear famously lets rip in an open-air encounter with the elements that should strike at the heart. Review: Kenneth Branagh’s Short, Shallow ‘King Lear’ 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z This Lear is also perhaps the most solitary I have met. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z The contemporary informality is broken when Jackson’s Lear makes a regal entrance. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z 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 Amanda Lear suddenly turned up on stage singing, “I Am What I Am,” which pretty much elevated the party to the status of legendary. Paris Fashion Week: French Vogue?s 90th Birthday Is a Wild One 2010-10-01T19:50:00Z Miller first directed Northern Broadsides two years ago, and Rutter says the director likes the company's "no-nonsense" approach, which "suits his vision of Lear very well". King Lear gets a Yorkshire accent 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Yorkin began his career in the early days of television as a stage manager and Emmy Award-winning director before joining forces with Lear in 1958. Bud Yorkin, innovative TV producer and director, dies at 89 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z The protagonist Archie Bunker was modeled after Lear’s own father: He was a working-class, seemingly uneducated and outspoken but “lovable” bigot. How Mister Rogers’ faith shaped his idea of children’s television 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z 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 But Elizabeth remains a force and, like Lear, she’s not going quickly or quietly. Movie Review: ‘The Eye of the Storm,’ With Geoffrey Rush 2012-09-06T22:03:02Z For Ocasio-Cortez, whom the film features most — Lears says this is a product of proximity, as the film's team were New York-based — it was the disastrous effects of the financial crisis and crippling student debt. "Knock Down the House" with AOC: New film offers a deeply humanizing portrait of a media obsession 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z 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 Uglow reasonably speculates that this was “abuse of some kind,” noting that “Lear rarely writes of touch, or physical desire.” There Once Was a Man Who Felt Lonely: A Biographer Considers Edward Lear’s Art and Its Sources 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z "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 But that certainly wasn’t true at “Lear”; to my eyes, the full house remained just that. We’ll Never Have Paris 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z 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 Still, when, in Act III, a humbled Lear declaims that he is a man “more sinned against than sinning,” we’re usually willing to agree, at least partly. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z A Queen Lear would not be insane but Mirren would have to go crazy for it. David Thomson on Helen Mirren 2010-10-14T22:00:00Z 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 On Saturday, Norman Lear, 97, became the oldest person ever to win an Emmy. ‘Game of Thrones’ Dominates at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z 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 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 She returned to the stage with the British Lear production. Glenda Jackson to Return to Broadway in ‘King Lear’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z 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 Yet he doesn’t envision himself as Hamlet, or Lear, or Prince Hal, but rather Richard III, the conniving, sweet-tongued, murderous king. ‘A Friend of Mr. Lincoln’ review: The burning ambition of a future president 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Edward Lear is even more of a puzzle: a strange, itinerant figure whose restless imagination and peculiar mind put him at odds with much of Victorian convention. Dickens, Browning and Lear: what's in a reputation? 2012-05-17T13:17:32Z Norman Lear, the producer of the socially conscious “All in the Family” and other hit sitcoms, contacted her in 1975. Ann Marcus, Writer for ‘Mary Hartman,’ Dies at 93 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Peck includes a chapter on Lear’s playfully surreal botanical drawings, such as his picture of the “Manypeeplia Upsidownia,” which shows tiny little men hanging like leaves from a plant’s stalk. For the art lover, the naturalist, the child in your life, a new book on Edward Lear 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Lear deBessonet’s superb production of the Sondheim and James Lapine modern classic “Into the Woods,” which originated at Encores! in May, has made the journey west and south to Broadway. ‘Into the Woods’ Review: Do You Believe in Magic? 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z But those subjects and the excerpts from “Lear” make up only a fraction of the show’s running time, leaving protracted talk and surreal scenes to fill the remainder. | 'Storm Still': ?King Lear? Inspires a Riff on the Endurance of Time 2011-02-27T23:00:47Z “This is Holm’s Lear,” the critic Sheridan Morley wrote in The International Herald Tribune, “and we are unlikely to leave this century with a better.” Ian Holm, Malleable Actor Who Played Lear and a Hobbit, Dies at 88 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z 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 play’s late stages go slowly as the rote nasty characters hack away inside the void left by the addled Lear. Review | ‘King Lear’ with Rick Foucheux is a family meltdown 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z “The show has these really harrowing lyrics even in songs that are upbeat,” said the production’s director, Lear deBessonet. ‘Oliver!’ Returns, With Darker Twists Intact 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z The “King Lear Overture” was a scattered 10 minutes. Philip Glass Is Too Busy to Care About Legacy 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Having directed Fiona Shaw as Richard II in 1995, she didn’t need to ask why Ms. Jackson wanted to be Lear. Glenda Jackson Hopes to Scale Mount Lear in Her Stage Return 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z “I had seen Carroll in a film, ‘What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?,’ and Marion reminded me of that,” Mr. Lear said on Wednesday. Marion Dougherty, Hollywood Star-Maker, Dies at 88 2011-12-08T04:59:31Z 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 That we’re too eager to conceive of Lear as a figure of grandeur may help to explain why on too many occasions, the play itself feels grandiose. Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ 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 Among watercolours of India was a self-caricature of Lear on an elephant. Vivien Noakes obituary 2011-03-04T16:06:57Z 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 In the impeccably calibrated descent into madness that follows, Lear grows up, in a sense, with devastating quickness. | 'King Lear': He?s a Grumpy Old Man, but Don?t Dare Run Away 2011-05-06T14:33:07Z And what is truly astonishing is the way he combines Lear's spiritual trajectory from blind arrogance to impotent wisdom with a sense of the character's tumultuous contradictions. King Lear - review 2010-12-08T00:05:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 King Lear: Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Style Invitational Week 1380: Both sides now 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z I ask as one who, having seen two shaky “Lears” already this summer, the stagings with Beale in London and Lithgow in New York, approaches each new incarnation with both curiosity and a residual trepidation. Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ Whether he is insane, as Lear was, is open to interpretation. A Novelist Recasts King Lear as a Corporate Tycoon in Contemporary India 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Which is why you want Glass to have a different reaction to Lear. Ira Glass’ “Shakespeare sucks” redemption: Fixing TED talks, public radio, and dystopia for millennials 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z “I’m very proud to be among these honorees representing my race,” Lear cracked. At the Kennedy Center Honors, plenty of politics make up for Trump’s playing hooky 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Murphy, the writer, director and producer whose credits also include "Nip/Tuck" and "Popular," described Lear as "the biggest shaper of my ideological life." Alda, Lear honored at 40th International Emmys 2012-11-20T12:54:13Z Mr. Yorkin, who started as a writer and director in the early days of television, made his biggest mark after joining Norman Lear, a producer, to form Tandem Productions. Bud Yorkin, Writer and Producer of ‘All in the Family,’ Dies at 89 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z The production, directed by Lear deBessonet, never loses its good humor even as the drama takes some dark turns. 'Miss You Like Hell,' an immigration musical for the new Trump era 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z After clips from his work were shown, Mr. Lear said, “I’m really touched by what Bill said. I’m really a hell of a guy.” 'Imitation Game,' 'Grand Budapest Hotel' and Decorum Win Over Writers Guild 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z 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 “Not that he wasn’t difficult to deal with, but he was funny as hell and that made everything possible,” Lear said. ‘Sanford and Son’ at 50, ‘double-edged’ Black sitcom pioneer 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z 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 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 “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 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 “To those of us who loved the Bergmans’ lyrics, Marilyn takes a bit our our hearts and souls with her today,” tweeted Norman Lear, creator of “Maude” and “Good Times.” Marilyn Bergman, Oscar-winning composer, dies at age 93 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z But a mere four years later, the man The New York Times once crowned “the Norman Lear of children’s television” was out at the network. Dan Schneider Once Reigned Over Children’s TV. What Happened? 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z When Lear’s autobiography, “Even This I Get to Experience,” was published last year, critics noted that he seemed to give little credit to Mr. Yorkin. Bud Yorkin, innovative TV producer and director, dies at 89 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z And when she strides onstage in an opening scene that will famously reduce Lear’s family to tatters, Ms. Jackson at once communicates a power and an authority that you mess with at your peril. Review: Glenda Jackson Rivets as King Lear in Her Return to the Stage 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z As the crisis evolves — humans threatened, this time by murderous androids — the Doctor wanders ragged and mad, a spindly Lear trying to remember why everything seems at once so foreign yet so familiar. Deep breath, 'Doctor Who' fans, Peter Capaldi up for adventure 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z 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 First, though, “Lear” — his second fling at the play this spring. Rick Foucheux paints a possible stage exit with an intimate ‘King Lear’ 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Representatives of Mr. Lear said Thursday that he still plans to skip the reception and accept the award. Carmen de Lavallade, a Dance Legend, to Skip a White House Reception 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z “It was an instant marriage,” Lear said, and one he says Foxx didn’t resist. ‘Sanford and Son’ at 50, ‘double-edged’ Black sitcom pioneer 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z And Mr. Hopkins’s Lear is at first every inch the tyrant; a blunt, gruff, arrogant man used to obedience and obeisance, incapable of reflection or empathy. Anthony Hopkins Returns to ‘King Lear,’ Finally Up to the Challenge 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z |
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