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.

You can't make a list like this and not include some of Kenneth Branagh's films. For more than 30 years, the classically trained actor has been bringing Shakespeare's work to the big screen as ...

Directing the film and starring as William Shakespeare is none other than Sir Kenneth Branagh. Aside from his many prominent Shakespearean stage credits, Branagh helmed and typically starred in ...

Kenneth Branagh in Branagh, with advice from various U.K. Shakespeare experts, pruned the play to this two-hour version. His Lear is Trumpian in his monotoned, bellicose self-regard, then ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Kenneth Branagh’s production of the Shakespeare classic speeds through the material and can’t quite figure out its tone. By Maya Phillips ...

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

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 of Ancient Britain.

During the pandemic, two out-of-work actors decided to mount a Shakespeare adaptation within the blocky, sun-kissed world of ...

Kenneth Branagh and Jessica Revell as Lear and Cordelia. Photo: Marc J. Franklin/Courtesy The Shed Kenneth Branagh and Jessica Revell as Lear and Cordelia. Photo: Marc J. Franklin/Courtesy The ...