Saturday, July 12, 2025

Anything Goes Kicks its Heels Sky High at the Shaw Festival by Ross

All aboard the MS Americana, as the Shaw Festival‘s effervescent production of Anything Goes sets sail for a spirited crossing filled to overflowing with flavorfully festive music and lyri…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:02AM
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Shakespeare Festival in Ukraine Goes On Despite War

According to reporting by The Guardian, a Shakespeare festival in the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk opened with a demonstration, not a play. Hundreds gathered on the theater steps to dem…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AM
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

King Lear is a masterpiece – as told by Akira Kurosawa rather than Shakespeare | Michael Billington by Michael Billington

The tragedy’s mythic quality appeals to adapters the world over but the Japanese film-maker’s Ran, now rereleased, manages to solve the play’s problems I have long had mixed feelings a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Photos: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY's Sarah Snook Receives Portrait at Sardi's

Sarah Snook, star of the Broadway production of The Picture of Dorian Gray, recently received her portrait at Sardi's. Snook took home the 2025 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AM
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Acton says: Stirred by Shakespeare in “Love You More” at the Tank by Ross

The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Love You More By Acton This has to be a mistake. Entering Love You More (writer Nikhil Mahapatra, director N // Nicky Maggio) at The Tank, we’re handed a …

SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 02:40PM
Friday, June 20, 2025

Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminar: All's Well That Ends Well by The Old Globe

Director Peter Francis James joins The Old Globe's Kim Heil to discuss Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well. Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminars provide Globe patrons with an opportu…

SOURCE: YouTube at 01:40AM

Experience the magic of Shakespeare at The Old Globe with All's Well That Ends Well by The Old Globe

Shakespeare's witty comedy opens the 2025 Shakespeare Festival, directed by Peter Francis James, and running June 8 through July 6, 2025. Find tickets at https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-…

SOURCE: YouTube at 01:31AM
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Juliet & Romeo review – Rebel Wilson and Jason Isaacs cameo in syrupy Shakespeare musical by Peter Bradshaw

With bare-faced cheek, this bardless take replaces all the original language with olden-days-effect prose – adding singing, dancing and a pointlessly starry cast Director and former stage …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM
Thursday, May 8, 2025

South Stream’s KING LEAR: Bold Take on Classic Story by Kim Jackson

Read Kim Jackson's Beltline to Broadway review of the South Stream Productions' presentation of KING LEAR. The post South Stream’s KING LEAR: Bold Take on Classic Story appeared first on B…

SOURCE: Beltline to Broadway at 12:22PM
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025

ROBERT ICKE’S MODERN-DAY OEDIPUS TRIUMPHS AT CRITICS’ CIRCLE THEATRE AWARDS by Robert Shuman

(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/17. Photo: From left: Jordan Scowen (Eteocles), Mark Strong (Oedipus), and Lesley Manville (Jocasta) in Oedipus. Photograph: Manuel Har…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:44PM

Robert Icke’s modern-day Oedipus triumphs at Critics’ Circle theatre awards by Chris Wiegand Stage Editor

Other winners include Francesca Amewudah-Rivers for Romeo & Juliet, Danny Sapani as King Lear and Giant playwright Mark Rosenblatt A modern-day version of Oedipus, which turned Sophocles…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Gypsy ***** by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward January, 28 2025: The sixth Broadway production of Gypsy, the classic musical based on the memoirs of legendary stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, is a theatrical miracle. Not onl…

SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:24PM
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Gypsy by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

Audra McDonald in a scene from George C. Wolfe’s production of “Gypsy” at the Majestic Theatre (Photo credit: Julia Cervantes) Mama Rose in the musical Gypsy, the 1959 collaboration of…

SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:01PM
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Audra McDonald on Why Gypsy Is the "King Lear" of Musical Theatre Roles - YouTube

... directed by George C. Wolfe. Audra McDonald on Why Gypsy Is the "King Lear" of Musical Theatre Roles. 707 views · 12 hours ago ...more. Playbill. 222K.

SOURCE: Google at 10:24PM
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Audra McDonald on Why Gypsy Is the "King Lear" of Musical Theatre Roles by Playbill

The revival of Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim's musical Gypsy is currently running at the Majestic Theatre. It stars six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald as Rose, Joy Woods as …

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:48PM
Friday, December 13, 2024

All The Devils Are Here at Shakespeare Theatre | The Georgetown Dish

“Dubbed “The villain of Broadway” by Playbill, Tony Award-nominee, and Grammy Award-winner Patrick Page (King Lear, Hadestown) has never shied away ...

SOURCE: Google at 05:54AM
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

How The Shed Brought Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Sondheim and Ralph Fiennes All Under One Roof by Gordon Cox

The Shed isn’t a Broadway theater, but in the relatively short time the venue has been in operation, it’s hosted some of New York City’s starriest stage endeavors—from Stephen Sondhe…

SOURCE: Variety at 01:16PM
Thursday, November 21, 2024

King Lear by Rhoda Feng

A production starring and codirected by Kenneth Branagh is thick with Neolithic-fur costumes, but thin on poetic feeling. Kenneth Branagh as King Lear and cast in King Lear. Courtesy the Sh…

SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PM
Sunday, November 17, 2024

King Lear (The Shed) by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

Firstly, the play has been shortened to two hours without any intermissions, when most recent productions have been three and a half hours with one intermission. This makes all of the events…

SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:28PM

This Week on Broadway for November 17, 2024: Maybe Happy Ending by James Marino

Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk about Maybe Happy Ending, King Lear @ The Shed, A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical, La Bohème @ the Met Opera, Orson’…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Friday, November 15, 2024

Review: Kenneth Branagh’s ‘King Lear’ Howls Into A Stormy, Rushed Muddle by David Cote

The great Kenneth Branagh leads and co-directs a decidedly not-great production of the Shakespeare tragedy.

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:37PM
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Review Roundup: Kenneth Branagh-Directed KING LEAR Opens at The Shed

Acclaimed actor Kenneth Branagh steps into the formidable shoes of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, in a new production at The Shed NYC. Read the reviews for this new production of one of …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:09PM

‘King Lear’ Review: Kenneth Branagh’s Latest Finds the Wrong Tone by Maya Phillips

Kenneth Branagh’s production of the Shakespeare classic speeds through the material and can’t quite figure out its tone.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:31PM

King Lear by David Walters

This is a play full of sound and fury, signifying everything. The post King Lear appeared first on The Front Row Center.

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 09:15PM

A Hasty KING LEAR at The Shed - Review

Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of King Lear by William Shakespeare at The Shed. The production stars Kenneth Branagah.

SOURCE: Theatrely at 09:00PM

King Lear at The Shed by Jk Clarke

Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . .  Is there any actor alive who is as passionate about Shakespeare, and as invested in his work, as Kenneth Branagh? He’s performed in and/or directed…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00PM

King Lear: Kenneth Branagh Cuts the Tragic Tale to a Slim Two Hours by Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★☆☆ The Shakespeare veteran directs and stars alongside RADA grads in a no-frills production The post King Lear: Kenneth Branagh Cuts the Tragic Tale to a Slim Two Hours appeared…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:58PM

King Lear: Kenneth Branagh Brings a Revival For Our Time, Sorta by David Finkle

★★★☆☆ Trimmed to two hours, the classic is directed by Branagh, Rob Ashford and Lucy Skilbeck with a young cast The post King Lear: Kenneth Branagh Brings a Revival For Our Time, …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:57PM

‘In his company, you never knew what would happen next’: remembering Timothy West by Tom Morris

Whether doing King Lear with students or performing soliloquies in complete darkness, the great actor was driven by curiosity Timothy West dies aged 90 Modest maestro embodied the best of B…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AM