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 ...

And Lear feels himself to be no more than “a poor, infirm, weak and despised old man”. On stage in the Olivier, that despised old man will, thanks to Simon Russell Beale’s gifts, wring you dry.

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 ...

An old man, bleary-eyed and half ... But returning to “King Lear,” it’s instructive — and deeply heartening — to know that there can be great light amid darkness, hope in the presence of ...

Glenda Jackson as King Lear Is the Mad King For Our Age "Lear is about an old man who has a serious temper tantrum because no one had ever said no to him." By Maureen Dowd Published: Mar 21, 2019 ...

Lear is “four score and upward,” and for once we get a genuine, palpable sense of the vulnerability of old age. Not for the first time, Warner keeps her staging to a minimum.

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, ... When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, ...

How ‘King Lear’ and ‘E.T.’ inspired Sir Ben Kingsley to befriend an ... a lonely old man in a small Pennsylvania town whose quiet life is turned upside down when an alien spaceship ...