The Shed's artistic director, Alex Poots, on how he brought starry theater events with Branagh, Stephen Sondheim and Ralph ...

In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, the actor, writer, and director ushered in a Golden Era of Shakespeare plays on film ...

The British actor stars in and co-directs this brisk, emotionally vacuous production of the towering drama at the Shed.

Kenneth Branagh and Jessica Revell as Lear and Cordelia ... If there’s an actor in King Lear who’s attempting to go deep as he drives forward, it’s Kloska. His Gloucester, though ...

By Maya Phillips Kenneth Branagh’s “King Lear,” which opened Thursday night at the Shed, is a tragedy that doesn’t seem to know why it’s so tragic. The production’s fleet and feathery ...

Visitors to the thrilling, trimmed-down Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company production of King Lear (Griffin Theater, The Shed, to Dec. 15), starring an excellent Branagh in the title role ...

So it’s hardly surprising that Kenneth Branagh, the British stage and screen star known for his affinity for and devotion to the Bard as both an actor and director, would get around to the task. For ...

Joseph Kiosk and Kenneth Branagh in "King Lear"; Neil Patrick Harris and Jane Krakowski in "Shit. Meet. Fan"; Jude Tibeau in "Bad Kreyòl" (Photos: Marc J. Franklin; Julieta Cervantes; Matthew ...

he sent in an audition tape for a production of King Lear that was to be directed by, and would star, Kenneth Branagh.

From: Photos: Kenneth Branagh in Rehearsal for KING LEAR at The Shed Kenneth Branagh plays the title role in a new production of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, set in the barbarous landscape ...

At two hours with no intermission, this stunning Branagh-helmed and -starring production is, in the best possible way, “King Lear’s” greatest hits. Senior Editor and Writer Senior Editor and ...

Given Kenneth Branagh’s virtually unmatched history ... it is hard not to feel disappointment bordering on dismay at his production of “King Lear,” a work considered by many to be the ...