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In Shakespeare’s time, a black flag would be raised over the theatre to indicate a tragedy. Well, a tragedy happened just before Shakespeare on The Green’s production of King Lear was to open. As King ...

"King Lear with Christopher Plummer" – Plummer explores how Lear might have been staged in Shakespeare's time. Sir Ian McKellen and Simon Russell Beale also offer insight into playing the troubled ...

LENOX — It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood Saturday — William Shakespeare’s neighborhood at Shakespeare & Company — for the official launch of the theater company’s brand-new outdoor venue, ...

The U.K.’s Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has found a global streaming home with theater specialist BroadwayHD. Nine RSC titles will debut on BroadwayHD in January, with 20 more productions set to ...

Nan Z. Da, Stephen Greenblatt, and Orville Schell discuss how Shakespeare can deepen our understanding of tyrannical ...

It was a bright and sunny beginning for the opening night of Shakespeare & Company’s production of King Lear. Sitting in the new outdoor 540-seat New Spruce Theater on the company’s grounds in Lenox, ...

After you’ve destroyed the world, what comes next? That’s the choice Shakespeare faced after he wrote King Lear. That’s also the choice we face in the next presidential election. Like Shakespeare ...

Running under two hours, Amazon's version of William Shakespeare's 'King Lear' is oddly thin and brisk, but you can't go wrong watching Anthony Hopkins as Lear. By Daniel Fienberg It’s been over 20 ...

The Tony Award nominee chats with THR about playing dual roles on Broadway in the classic tragedy and discovering her "origin story" through the life of her grandmother in 'Mrs. Wilson.' By Suzy Evans ...

In his play “King Lear,” Shakespeare created a minor character who is a knight. There are technically 100 knights who are mentioned several times. They’re so minor, only one gets to speak and he isn’t ...