Lear’s kingdom, as designed by Anthony Ward, is a dark and cheerless Eastern European sort of place, with mottled blue walls and elemental panels, scudding clouds, a vast council chamber table, ...

While Manhattan theatergoers took what cold comfort they could from warmed-over operettas and a blurry reprint of The Front Page, London had Laurence Olivier’s majestic production of King Lear. By ...

A king shouts to the world to drive him mad. Running across the English heath during a tempest, he abandons all care and his sanity. This king is a man in a play, but this man is being acted by a ...

Show Pics: Simon Russell Beale reunites with Sam Mendes for NT's Lear Production images have been released for Sam Mendes’ production of ”King Lear” at the NT Olivier starring Simon Russell Beale, ...