In Richard II, John of Gaunt says to the Duchess of Gloucester that there is nothing ... and the makers of art are the ones who can provide it. Cordelia in the Court of King Lear (1873) by Sir ...

The week that Mahmoud Khalil became a political prisoner of the Trump regime, I was teaching Shakespeare’s King ... Lear, betrayed by ungrateful and conniving daughters, but the Earl of ...

So—a few weeks ago, I saw Kenneth Branagh in “King Lear” at the ... disregards age altogether. Old Gloucester and his son, Edgar, look like brothers, and Lear, a man described as ...

Caleb Obadiah, Dylan Corbett-Bader, Saffron Coomber, Deborah Alli and Mara Allen (from left) in King Lear. Marc J ... My mind went to Gloucester’s astrological pearl-clutching: “These late ...

At two hours with no intermission, this stunning Branagh-helmed and -starring production is, in the best possible way, “King Lear’s ... s play—poor Gloucester!—rendered here into ...

If there’s an actor in King Lear who’s attempting to go deep as he drives forward, it’s Kloska. His Gloucester, though conspicuously young — everyone’s young, even Branagh, whose not ...

(laughs) PEÑA: At the Albuquerque "Roadshow" in 2014, Debra Force met a guest named Carol who brought in a mysterious painting called ... copy of Shakespeare's "King Lear" in Vermont in 2022 ...

Once Gloucester sees the letter, he writes Edgar off as a villain. Feeling betrayed, Edgar assumes a new identity as a beggar and goes no-contact with his family. In the second plot, King Lear ...

Lear’s failure to distinguish the florid rhetoric of flattery from just words of praise reveals also his inability to differentiate between quantity and quality. Lear’s loyal servant Kent advises the ...

This salacious take on The Importance of Being Earnest isn’t just terrific fun, it’s tethered to a deep appreciation of the dramatic interplay between Wilde’s biography and his art.

Dennis Raveneau as the title character, left, and Ed Woodall as Gloucester rehearse Fair Assembly's production of "King Lear."(Emily Ernst) This joy appears when Gloucester and Lear magically run ...

Even more if the play happened to be “King Lear” — one of Shakespeare’s ... who worked in children’s art therapy at a local film school: Actors wanted. No experience needed.