Al Pacino and Jessica Chastain will star in Lear Rex, a new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear. Per Deadline, Pacino will play the titular character in the forthcoming Lear Rex, while ...

Eighteen years ago, the OrangeMite Shakespeare Company began a journey to bring every one of Shakespeare’s plays to the stage ...

Babes With Blades Theatre Company will present its 2026 season with the world premiere of yo ho. and a new production of KING ...

The cast for Bernard Rose’s Lear Rex, a film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, has been revealed Joining Al Pacino and Jessica Chastain in the film are Ariana DeBose, Rachel Brosnahan, ...

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 ...

Actor, producer, director, and educator Abigail Killeen has taken to the boards once more to star in a much-praised, off-Broadway production of Shakespeare’s King Lear at one of New York’s leading ...

AKRON, Ohio – Shakespeare lovers can catch the Ohio Shakespeare Festival’s production of “King Lear” under the stars at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens on three upcoming weekends. The play will be performed ...

It is a common reflex to reach for Aristotle’s Poetics to determine what a good tragedy should be. Aristotle says there are good reasons to enjoy a good tragedy, especially if its ergon or telos (its ...

Guest director Andrea J. Dymond was excited to be selected to spend part of her summer sharing one of William Shakespeare’s most famous written works with both indoor and outdoor audiences in ...

This course will take place virtually on Zoom. Participation in this course requires a device (ideally a computer or tablet, rather than a cell phone) with a camera and microphone in good working ...