Lear: That Old Man I Used To Know, a new play based on Shakespeare's King Lear, will play A.R.T/New York Theatres (502 W. 53rd Street, between 10th and 11th) beginning September 5 for a limited ...

Voices Comment The anguish of King Lear’s ‘despised old man’ is timeless Genius has no need of demographic tables. Shakespeare would not have seen many examples of age-related dementia at a ...

Lear: That Old Man I Used To Know, a new play based on Shakespeare's King Lear, is currently in performances at A.R.T/New York Theatres - Gural Theatre - 3rd Floor (502 W. 53rd Street, between ...

‘King Lear’: Theater Review Two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson returns to the stage after a quarter-century in Shakespeare's most demanding role, 'King Lear,' at an age when the monarch ...

It’s one of the most gut-piercing scenes ever to be enacted on the theatrical stage. An old man, bleary-eyed and half-naked in an ancient English heath, rages against a pitiless storm: “Blow ...

Maureen Dowd on why there are so many revivals of King Lear and why Tony winner Glenda Jackson is the perfect person to play Shakepeare's mad king in the age of Donald Trump.

A kingdom divided, a family destroyed, the faithful banished and the hateful left to wreak inhuman havoc in the realm. Four hundred years after it was written, King Lear resonates as never before ...

There's gotta be story behind the hat … and there is. Norman Lear's wife bought him his signature hat to keep him from scratching his head while he writes. But he's a man who has worn many hats ...

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter ...

In his new film “Jules,” Sir Ben Kingsley plays Milton, a lonely old man in a small Pennsylvania town whose quiet life is turned upside down when an alien spaceship lands in the middle of his ...

‘King Lear’: Theater Review Glenda Jackson returns to Broadway to tackle one of the greatest of classical theater roles in a gender-blind production of 'King Lear' that also features Ruth ...