Monday, December 22, 2025
Take your first look at "Luck Be a Lady" performed by Jacob Dickey and the company of GUYS AND DOLLS at Sakespeare Theatre Company. Directed by Washington National Opera Artistic Director Fr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMFriday, December 12, 2025
The title Laowang: A Chinatown King Lear (written by Alex Lin; directed by Joshua Kahan Brody) is immediately intriguing. Unfortunately, the play does not live up to the title. Yes, there …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:24PMWednesday, December 10, 2025
Take your first look at "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" performed by Kyle Taylor Parker and the company of Guys and Dolls. Directed by Washington National Opera Artistic Director Frances…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:33PMMonday, December 8, 2025
Get a first look at Sakespeare Theatre Company's holiday presentation of Guys and Dolls. Directed by Washington National Opera Artistic Director Francesca Zambello (Porgy and Bess, Turandot,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:26PMWednesday, December 3, 2025
akespeare Theatre Company has released photos of its holiday presentation of Guys and Dolls. Directed by Washington National Opera Artistic Director Francesca Zambello (Porgy and Bess, Turan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:35PMTuesday, December 2, 2025
The revival of August Wilson's Joe Turner’s Come and Gone has completed casting. As previously announced, production stars Taraji P. Henson and Cedric “The Entertainer,” with per…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18PMMonday, November 24, 2025
One of the greatest actors of Japanese cinema best known for Ran, the 1985 film adaptation of King Lear
Though he had the well-appointed bone structure of the 1950s matinee idol, it was Tats…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMThursday, November 20, 2025
This Shakespeare adaptation doesn't live up to its premise. Lorin Wertheimer reviews.
The post Review: Laowang, a Chinatown King Lear at Primary Stages appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 12:22AMFriday, November 14, 2025
What is the effervescent new boss at Pitlochry theatre planning for his first season? Huge names, undersung stars – and a King Lear played by ‘the woman who changed my life’
‘Holy sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMThursday, November 13, 2025
Alan Cumming has unveiled Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s programming for 2026. This will mark Cumming’s inaugural year as the theater’s artistic Ddirector for the theater and coincide wi…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMTuesday, November 11, 2025
While Richard III has been done 21 times on Broadway, Richard II has been done only seven, most recently in 1957. (Source: ibdb.com) It is certainly less interesting. Richard III is a grand…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:18AMThursday, November 6, 2025
The post The True History of the Life and Death of King Lear & His Three Daughters appeared first on Australian Arts Review.
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 08:39PMTuesday, October 28, 2025
What is Broadway was more like a Renaissance Faire? Audiences are finding out at San Diego's Old Globe, where the new musical Huzzah! is now running. The masterminds behind the merriment are…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:54PMLondon Theatre Company has released a trailer for The Lady from the Sea, written and directed by Simon Stone after Henrik Ibsen. The production, which is in collaboration with Wouter van Ran…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:54PMWatch a first look at the company of Into The Woods in London on their first day of rehearsals. The production, helmed by director Jordan Fein with set and costume designer Tom Scutt, will b…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:48AMTony Award-winning Actor ANDRÉ DE SHIELDS joined host NATHAN WINKELSTEIN, for a conversation focused on the ‘man more sinned against than sinning’, Shakespeare’s titular King Lear. Th…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:27AMMonday, October 13, 2025
What is Broadway was more like a Renaissance Faire? Audiences are finding out at San Diego's Old Globe, where the new musical Huzzah! is now running. The masterminds behind the merriment are…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PMFriday, October 10, 2025
Axis Ballymun, DublinMixing childhood memories, songs and Shakespeare, Michael Patrick delivers a one-man show about the reality of being given four years to live
Michael Patrick may not liv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMThursday, October 2, 2025
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
As summer winds down with the beach chairs stored away, the last of the ripe tomatoes devoured, and the tans finally faded, we now turn to the fall and those extra special shows to get us ex…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:41PMWednesday, September 17, 2025
RSC touring troupe stage King Lear in a school hall on St Mary’s before continuing to the Isle of Wight
“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!” King Lear, Act III, Scene 2
A …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMMonday, September 15, 2025
King Lear Rises Again to Mark the Golden Anniversary of The American Theatre of Actors As the curtain opens on its 50th year, the ATA has turned to a signature piece to mark the very special…
SOURCE: Arts Independent at 04:26PMFriday, August 29, 2025
King Lear begins as the Earl of Gloucester introduces his illegitimate son, Edmund, to the Earl of Kent. Lear, King of Britain, enters with his court. Now that he is an old man, Lear has de…
SOURCE: Arts Independent at 02:09PMWednesday, August 20, 2025
Friday, August 8, 2025
Traverse, EdinburghIn Dan Colley’s evocative play, a retired actor with dementia loops through scenes from the classic tragedy
A play remains a classic for as long as it continues to yield…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PMTuesday, August 5, 2025
Twists in the tail bring revelations in two fine shows at the Traverse Theatre
Lost Lear, Traverse Theatre ★★★★
A rehearsal room; a tense preparation session for a production of Kin…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:48AMTuesday, July 22, 2025
Amid rehearsals for Twelfth Night at Shakespeare in the Park, Peter Dinklage visited Late Night with Seth Meyers to discuss the new production, along with his role in the new series Dexter: …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:02AMSaturday, July 12, 2025
All aboard the MS Americana, as the Shaw Festival‘s effervescent production of Anything Goes sets sail for a spirited crossing filled to overflowing with flavorfully festive music and lyri…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:02AMWednesday, July 9, 2025
According to reporting by The Guardian, a Shakespeare festival in the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk opened with a demonstration, not a play. Hundreds gathered on the theater steps to dem…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AMTuesday, July 8, 2025
The tragedy’s mythic quality appeals to adapters the world over but the Japanese film-maker’s Ran, now rereleased, manages to solve the play’s problems
I have long had mixed feelings a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMWednesday, July 2, 2025
Sarah Snook, star of the Broadway production of The Picture of Dorian Gray, recently received her portrait at Sardi's. Snook took home the 2025 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AMTuesday, June 24, 2025
The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Love You More By Acton This has to be a mistake. Entering Love You More (writer Nikhil Mahapatra, director N // Nicky Maggio) at The Tank, we’re handed a …
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 02:40PMFriday, June 20, 2025
Director Peter Francis James joins The Old Globe's Kim Heil to discuss Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well.
Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminars provide Globe patrons with an opportu…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:40AMShakespeare's witty comedy opens the 2025 Shakespeare Festival, directed by Peter Francis James, and running June 8 through July 6, 2025.
Find tickets at https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:31AMTuesday, June 10, 2025
With bare-faced cheek, this bardless take replaces all the original language with olden-days-effect prose – adding singing, dancing and a pointlessly starry cast
Director and former stage …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMThursday, May 8, 2025
Read Kim Jackson's Beltline to Broadway review of the South Stream Productions' presentation of KING LEAR.
The post South Stream’s KING LEAR: Bold Take on Classic Story appeared first on B…
SOURCE: Beltline to Broadway at 12:22PMWednesday, May 7, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/17. Photo: From left: Jordan Scowen (Eteocles), Mark Strong (Oedipus), and Lesley Manville (Jocasta) in Oedipus. Photograph: Manuel Har…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:44PMOther winners include Francesca Amewudah-Rivers for Romeo & Juliet, Danny Sapani as King Lear and Giant playwright Mark Rosenblatt
A modern-day version of Oedipus, which turned Sophocles…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM 
