Towards the turn of the millennium, Conleth Hill, then a theatre actor in his mid-30s, found himself at a juncture. After a decade working regularly in Belfast, he had finished ticking off a list of ...

Or when a patriarch succumbs to flattery over a more difficult truth? Shakespeare asks these questions and more in King Lear, his study of political vacuums and family dynamics. The ageing King ...

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo deliver a 'Macbeth' for the ages, but the curse of Shakespeare's tragedy isn't easy to avoid.

Fully rising to prominence thanks to his role on HBO’s hit series, Game of Thrones ... for Bernard Rose’s Lear Rex, an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, that also features ...

The "Wicked" and "Bridgerton" star headlines a production at London's Bridge Theatre, directed by Nicholas Hytner.

And that’s before we get to Game of Thrones... Now, as he prepares to play King Lear at Dublin’s Gate theatre, he says he’s never had a game plan 'It could be Tarantino-esque. There’s ...

And that’s before we get to Game of Thrones... Now, as he prepares to play King Lear at Dublin’s Gate theatre, he says he’s never had a game plan “It was good the word ‘Lear’ didn’t ...

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Forget Hamlet, Lear or Macbeth – the Bard saved his sharpest psychological ... returning from exile in France to claim his inheritance and challenge Richard’s grasp on the throne, only to find himself ...