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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

a staging of “King Lear” co-directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: “It’s been 10 years in the making,” said the Shed’s ...

You will not be able to keep your eyes off the eye. Visitors to the thrilling, trimmed-down Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company production of King Lear (Griffin Theater, The Shed, to Dec. 15), starring an ...