Is blood thicker than water? Should family always come first? These clichés about the importance of family abound, despite ...

The Bard churned out King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra as London reeled from the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and ...

Resident Ensemble Players’ King Lear is not a safe, reverential staging—it is a bold, bracing confrontation with one of Shakespeare’s most devastating works. Tt is a production that does what great ...

By now, everyone has heard Troy Edgar, the deputy secretary ... My favorite thing about King Lear, as someone who is hardly an expert in Shakespeare but has taught it for years, is that it has ...

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

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