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 ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In the Resident Ensemble Players’ stirring production of King Lear, ...

When President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he would not seek reelection after all, one of my first thoughts went to a Russian-born Jewish playwright who revolutionized Yiddish theater in turn of ...