Charles Lamb is responsible for the idea that King Lear cannot be shown on a stage. But the final production of the current Shakespeare-Marlowe Festival at the Loeb last night, offered evidence ...

Resident Ensemble Players’ King Lear is not a safe, reverential staging—it is a bold, bracing confrontation with one of Shakespeare’s most devastating works. Tt is a production that does what great ...

For Philippa Kelly, who in 2022 dramaturged Marcus Gardley’s adaptation of “King Lear” at Cal Shakes and who’s written books about the play, Biden’s debate debacle is akin to Lear’s ...