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King Lear – Review
| October 2, 2017
It opens full of pomp and majesty to hail a great, if flawed, king. Ian McKellen makes a grand entrance in this latest production of King Lear to
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Chichester is sold out for Ian McKellen’s King Lear
| August 15, 2017
Chichester’s new production of King Lear starring Ian McKellen has sold out, it has been announced. Now the theatre, which is staging the play on its smaller Minerva
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Kevin McNally to play King Lear at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
| April 10, 2017
Stage and screen star, Kevin McNally is to take the title role in the Shakespeare’s Globe production of King Lear, playing on Bankside, this summer. Kevin is best
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Chichester Festival Theatre announces Festival 2017
| February 16, 2017
Chichester Festival Theatre’s 2017 season, the first under the new leadership of Daniel Evans and Rachel Tackley, embraces classic and contemporary plays and musicals. Richard Wilson leads the
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King Lear – Review
| September 2, 2016
They say that King Lear is the pinnacle to which Shakespearean actors aspire. They start off their careers as a young Romeo, progress through Hamlet, into battle with
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King Lear – Review
| April 6, 2016
It’s a busy year for King Lear. Last night two productions opened – Don Warrington assumed the mantle of put-upon royal father in Manchester while Shakespeare classicist Michael
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Michael Pennington stars in Royal & Derngate’s King Lear
| February 29, 2016
Michael Pennington is set to play one of Shakespeare’s greatest roles, King Lear, in a new production from Northampton’s Royal & Derngate, directed by Max Webster, that will
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Antony Sher & Simon Russell Beale return to RSC for winter 2016.
| February 8, 2016
Antony Sher just can’t stay away from the Royal Shakespeare Company. He’s back this autumn, following up his performance in Arthur Miller’s Death of A Salesman with King
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King Lear – Review
| April 13, 2015
Having seen two other, quite extraordinarily brilliant, large-scale Lears in the last 18 months, there is a temptation to compare – even though I know I shouldn’t. Frank
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John McEnery takes tortured King Lear to Rose Playhouse
| March 23, 2015
One of the great Shakespearean actors of modern times, BAFTA Award nominee John McEnery is set to bring the Bard’s tortured royal father, King Lear, to the stage
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Northern Broadsides completes casting for King Lear
| December 8, 2014
Northern Broadsides has completed casting King Lear around its artistic director, Barrie Rutter, who will play royally harrassed and hen-pecked father-of-three. Directed by Jonathan Miller, Rutter will be
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Jonathan Miller to direct Northern Broadsides’ Lear
| November 12, 2014
Opera and theatre director Jonathan Miller is set to, once again, join forces with Northern Broadsides to direct Shakespeare’s King Lear in February. The production will open at
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