King Lear

Spring Arts Guide Picks: Theater

If I Were You Does Screwball Comedy, Canadian Style

Movie Violence Has Never Been Better—Or More Reckless

The way we die now

Festen Toasts Family Misery

St. Ann's Warehouse hosts TR Warszawa's version of the Thomas Vinterberg film

Black Butterflies

King Lear: Cataracts and Hurricanoes at the Public Theater

Sam Waterston stars in noted play by non-anonymous author

Sons of the Prophet: Inexplicable Tragic Pain, Season One

Stephen Karam's new play takes a litle too much from the sitcom

THE ROYAL TREATMENT

Sam Waterston takes on King Lear at the Public

Fall Arts: Theater Picks

The RSC's (Julius) Caesar Salad

A Lincoln Center Festival show is no Roman holiday

The Patsy: Visionary David Greenspan Reanimates a 1920s Antique

King Lear: Not Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth

Noted British tragedy gets an unnotable production at the Lincoln Center Festival

Donmar Warehouse's King Lear Storms Into BAM (No Matter Who Wrote the Damn Thing)

Derek Jacobi and Michael Grandage want their ounce of civet

STORM WATCH

London’s Donmar Warehouse takes on King Lear

Supreme Court Justices Are Nerds; Mel Gibson Somehow Involved

​When most Americans punch out at 5 o'clock, we plop down in our armchairs, crack open a cold brew, and watch CBS until we forget our Social Security numbers. Work is for the office, home is for NCIS: Los Angeles. Members of the Supreme Court didn't get the memo. The Wall Street Journal ran a ... More >>

Storm Still Offers Little Thunder

A downtown take on King Lear makes ill use of Animal Crackers

Turning Performance Inside Out at MOMA's Documentary Fortnight

For Cannon Films, Chuck Norris + Godard = Success

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SAMURAI SHAKESPEARE

Throne of Blood comes to the stage

Watch: New Yorker Poetry Editor Paul Muldoon Critiques Ke$ha's "Tik Tok"

Normally we have a zero tolerance for LOL-pop-music-type gags, in which someone old and stentorian soberly reads some silly Soulja Boy versa with a bunch of misplaced gravitas and strategic confusion, but let's make an exception here for the virtuoso poet and aging hipster Paul Muldoon, whom the P ... More >>

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FATHER FIGURE

Lee does Lear

WAKE-UP CALL

Shakespeare in the other park

That Thing He Does

Thankfully, pop alchemist Mike Viola keeps doing it

Nunn and Nothingness

Ian McKellen plays Shakespeare and Chekhov, but nobody wins

Lear Window

Kevin Kline prepares to scale the mad king's heroic heights and war-torn politics

A True New Yawk Saga

Built Ford Tough

Dazed and Confuzed

Jim James's alienated roots maneuvers murmur mistily at the world beyond the Bonnarooskis

White Party

Old news: A lot of movie stars are in the closet. Good news: A new comedy star's on the loose.

Theater

A Meandering Brook Tells a Murky Parable of Intolerance

A Child of the Iranian Revolution Gets Graphic With Bush

Herskovits Moves Theater Forward—to Its Medieval Roots

Lear as Daylight

Keeping even Plummer un-plummy, Jonathan Miller makes Shakespeare make sense

The Taming of the Bard

What's the Trick of Staging Shakespeare? Directors Spill Their Trade Secrets.

NY Mirror

Isolation Row

The Secret Histories

Sororal Fixation

The Taste of Others

Theater

A Doom of One’s Own

Like Pater for ‘Chocolat’

Send in the Frowns

My Trans Problem

And How a Feminist Learned to Overcome It

Flails From the Crypt

Rules of Engagement

Casting no doubts

Surrender the Alamodome

Dane’s Addiction