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In Shakespeare’s time, a black flag would be raised over the theatre to indicate a tragedy. Well, a tragedy happened just before Shakespeare on The Green’s production of King Lear was to open. As King ...

The stage set was haunting in its stark simplicity. Panels of jagged crossbeams evoked skeletal ruins. Lengths of white fabric fluttered like shrouds. For almost any theater troupe in the world, it ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A typical, unabridged performance of Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear takes just under three hours.

Shakespeare enthusiasts spent their Halloween shivering through the Grassroots Shakespeare Company’s bloody production of ...

A new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “King Lear” seeks to make the famous family tragedy accessible to young theatergoers. Actors’ Theatre of South Carolina will present the play, the second such ...

Since its first performance in 1606, King Lear has earned its place as Shakespeare’s largest and most revered powerhouse ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – This week and next, Saratoga Shakespeare is doing what was once thought foolhardy. They are producing one of Shakespeare’s tragedies as a summer entertainment. This year the ...

The world, as Shakespeare describes it in "King Lear," is a "great stage of fools" -- and no one is a bigger fool than prideful Lear himself. The version of this plaintive moan of a tragedy at Folger ...

The U.K.’s Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has found a global streaming home with theater specialist BroadwayHD. Nine RSC titles will debut on BroadwayHD in January, with 20 more productions set to ...

It was a bright and sunny beginning for the opening night of Shakespeare & Company’s production of King Lear. Sitting in the new outdoor 540-seat New Spruce Theater on the company’s grounds in Lenox, ...

Two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson returns to the stage after a quarter-century in Shakespeare's most demanding role, 'King Lear,' at an age when the monarch wouldn’t be the only one thinking of ...