(AP) King Lear may be Shakespeare’s greatest work, but, let’s face it, it’s also grindingly grim. The reasons are simple: There’s great suffering, a man descends into madness, two families are torn ...

The annual Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary season with its first production of William Shakespeare's powerful tragedy "King Lear," running Aug. 21-31. The play tells ...

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

The show opens with actor Nkhanise Phiri, who plays the Fool and Cordelia, giving her best Buttons-alike panto warm-up act.

For King Lear, perhaps Shakespeare’s bleakest tragedy, Denver Center Theatre Company artistic director Kent Thompson has the characters argue, fight, rage, torment each other and grieve on an almost ...

What is it about the fathers in "King Lear" that they are so quick, on such slight evidence, to feel betrayed where they are actually most loved? That's one of the questions raised by the revival of ...