King Lear is generally acknowledged to be Shakespeare’s greatest work. The play is notoriously difficult, excessively long, deeply harrowing and, not surprisingly, his least popular tragedy. Kenneth B ...
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Joyce Glasser reviews The Tragedy of Macbeth (December 26, 2021), Cert 15, 105 mins. Joel Coen, the other half of the Coen brothers (Inside Llewyn Davis,No Country for Old Men, Barton Fink, Fargo) is ...
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Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser, one of the best plays about life backstage, is a minor 20th century classic. It premiered in 1980 with Freddie Jones as an old pro and Tom Courtenay as his dresser. It wa ...
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Erica Whyman’s production, set in the 1950s and 1960s, was originally intended to be staged at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre but due to the coronavirus pandemic was re-imagined for the screen and broa ...
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