David Tennant and Cush Jumbo deliver a 'Macbeth' for the ages, but the curse of Shakespeare's tragedy isn't easy to avoid.

If Godard’s filmography was placed on a spectrum from linear to discombobulated, King Lear (1987), his postmodern ...

King Lear (2018) is a British American drama film written and directed by Richard Eyre. Set in a militarized 21st-century London, an aging King leaves his throne. He divides his kingdom among his ...

What happens when a leader wants all the power and none of the responsibility? Or when a patriarch succumbs to flattery over a more difficult truth?

This novel may be intended for young people but there is nothing juvenile about it. It is serious, frightening, and the ...

Lear (Sir Laurence Olivier) is an aging King who wants to retire by abdicating to his three daughters. However, in an act of petty ego stroking, he asks them who amongst them loves him most.

The rising English comedian Ania Magliano has collected more than a few plaudits over the past three years – “sharp, poised ...

KING LEAR, Shakespeare's masterpiece, is one of the towering works of world literature. In no other play is Shakespeare's tragic vision more terrifyingly clear-and nowhere in his canon does he ...

A stage-to-screen film of King Lear, filmed in the round in Manchester. A brutal portrait of a man unravelling - pitted against his daughters, nature and the universe itself. Show more A stage-to ...