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Chicago Theater Review: KING LEAR (Chicago Shakespeare Theater) by Lawrence Bommer

A FORCED FRENZY Some well-meant productions make you feel bad because you care so little. That's perilously close to what transpires in Chicago Shakespeare Theater's louder-than-life revival of King Lear. No question, the drama already detonates on the page. Shakespeare presents a searing ancient-to-present plight: An arrogant monarch mistakenly confuses his daughters' love for lip […]

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:13PM on September 18, 2014

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