The latest King Lear opens at a time when the world is confirming its apocalyptic vision: civilians shot out of the sky, children bombed in schools and disease spreading from foreign lands. "Humanity must perforce prey on itself," the Duke of Albany muses, "like monsters of the deep." Maybe such headline-horror resonance added to my sense that the Public Theater has delivered, pound for pound, the most coherent, hear…
SOURCE: Time Out at 11:38AM on August 6, 2014