An Iranian director is breathing new life into William Shakespeare's "King Lear" with a bold staging in Tehran infused with ...

As he approaches his 89th birthday, Richard Wilson plays King Lear for the first time in his life. Richard will be the oldest-ever British actor to take on the role. This is Shakespeare's powerful ...

Do Lear’s daughters love him? What do they bring with them into the space when they gather along with the rest of their father’s court to witness the old king divesting his power and dividing ...

deceit and the struggle for power sees Lear, an aging king and father, reject the child who truly loves him and is unable to see beyond the lies of his eldest daughters. Lear’s blindness ...

The barrister and her father, neurosurgeon Graeme Brazenor, have become production patrons for the Melbourne run of Bell Shakespeare’s new take on King Lear – meaning that a dad-and-daughter ...

“King Lear” is about lots of things—power ... the King has cast himself out into a storm after a fight with his older daughters, who have lied to him, and he is slowly going mad.