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

Kenneth Branagh’s production of the Shakespeare classic speeds through the material and can’t quite figure out its tone.

Above my desk, I keep a Post-it note with a quote from the play: “The worst is not so long as we can say ‘This is the worst.’ ” ...

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.

“King Lear” features two storylines. Each relates to the disintegration of the family. The first plot involves Gloucester and his two sons, Edgar and Edmund. Edmund is a bastard, which means ...

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Edmund is a bastard ... identity as a beggar and goes no-contact with his family. In the second plot, King Lear attempts to divide his kingdom among his daughters. Because it is impossible ...

Principal photography is completed on Bernard Rose’s Shakespeare adaptation starring Al Pacino, Jessica Chastain, Rachel ...

“King Lear” features two storylines ... Images The first plot involves Gloucester and his two sons, Edgar and Edmund. Edmund is a bastard, which means when Gloucester dies, his legitimate ...

Oxford believed that his wife had been unfaithful to him while he was away on a European tour and (for a time, at least) seems to have doubted that he was the father of her first child. Hamlet says to ...