Kenneth Branagh and Jessica Revell as Lear and Cordelia. Photo: Marc J. Franklin/Courtesy The Shed Kenneth Branagh and ...

You will not be able to keep your eyes off the eye. Visitors to the thrilling, trimmed-down Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company ...

The British actor stars in and co-directs this brisk, emotionally vacuous production of the towering drama at the Shed.

The Middlebury College Theater Department will punctuate this election season with a presentation of “King Lear” by William ...

Dolby Atmos brings the production of King Lear to life in the theater's physical space by allowing the creators to place audio effects and music all around the audience and actors – even above them.

Branagh: Big works of art take long gestation periods, and it's been 45 years since I first read King Lear, so that's when the journey begins. You and I started talking specifically about a new ...

TV icon Norman Lear made political discussions funny. Watch a classic "All in the Family" clip from a new exhibit honoring ...

In the second plot, King Lear attempts to divide his kingdom among his daughters. Because it is impossible to equally divvy up cities, towns and villages, he invents a contest: Each daughter will ...

TV icon Norman Lear's cultural influence and political voice ... A featured "All in the Family" clip from the Nov. 4, 1972, episode, “Mike Comes into Money," aired three days before the 1972 ...

Kenneth Branagh plays the title role in a new production of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, set in the barbarous ... from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art directed by Branagh, this production ...