In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, the actor, writer, and director ushered in a Golden Era of Shakespeare plays on film the likes of which we haven’t seen since.

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

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 ...

a staging of “King Lear” co-directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. New York Audiences Are Noisy - and Nicole Scherzinger Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way: Hear the Stars Dish at Variety's Bus ...

a staging of “King Lear” co-directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. More from Variety How Broadway's James Monroe Iglehart Got Louis Armstrong's Signature Gravelly Voice Just Right in 'A Wonderful ...

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 artistic director ...

James Phoon, as Ferdinand, and Mara Huf, as Miranda, in ‘The Tempest’ at Theatre Royal Drury Lane (Photo: Marc Brenner) ...

I went to see Kenneth Branagh do ‘King Lear’ the other night in New York and I was thinking, ‘The Apprentice’ is no more a political drama than a Shakespeare play is a political drama.