If Godard’s filmography was placed on a spectrum from linear to discombobulated, King Lear (1987), his postmodern ...

South African stage legend John Kani has become known for films such as “Black Panther,” and now stars in his play “Kunene ...

Shakespeare’s “King Lear” places the title character’s frailty within an epic political context, where dementia provides Lear with important wisdom by reducing him to his bare humanity and ...

The St. Louis Shakespeare Festival has unveiled its landmark 25th anniversary season, featuring a groundbreaking ...

Torn between the futile noblity of Marcus Brutus, and the clear-eyed visions of Marcus Aurelius, the latter serves best as ...

The show will be a "delightfully playful take on Romeo & Juliet" answering the question, "What if the animals put on their ...

Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

Ever since a #MeToo article in The New York Times got him expelled from his own legendary East Village company, the Disorder’d Rabble — the name is borrowed from “King Lear” — he has ...