Preparing for retirement, King Lear decides to split his land evenly amongst his three daughters - Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Before he bestows these gifts upon his daughters, he gives them a ...

Capital Classics Theatre Company has revealed the repertory company of the two productions that will comprise the 2025 ...

His scenes with Lear serve as emotional anchors, and in Pelinsky’s increasingly unmoored portrayal of the king, Ernst was also Fight Choreographer and Intimacy Coordinator. An oxymoron?

Shakespeare's works were far from sacrosanct. Here’s a popular adaptation of King Lear where almost everyone, except for the real 'baddies', lives happily ever after. Loved by spectators ...

Goneril talks to King Lear, her father, telling him that he is acting foolish and not attending to his kingdom. She does this with an alterior motive to find a reason to kick him out of his kingdom.

King Lear has been through so many indignities – compromised by his vanity, betrayed by hypocrites, abandoned to madness – that it seems crueller still that he endured a theatrical boycott.