Lear (Sir Laurence Olivier) is an aging King who wants to retire by abdicating to his three daughters. However, in an act of petty ego stroking, he asks them who amongst them loves him most.

King Lear’s crown is rusting. I got nothing against Willie ... Ralph Fiennes, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Jeremy Irons.

South Korean director Jung Young-doo has been nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award, Britain's highest honor in theater, for ...

Adam Cork has won several awards, including Best Designer at the Evening Standard Awards for Anna Christie and King Lear. He has also received the Best Sound Design award at the Olivier Awards for ...

for King Lear, Best Actress (Olivier Awards) for Hedda Gabler, Distinguished Performance Award (Drama League Awards) for Constellations, Theatre World Award (Theatre World Awards) for ...

reunite in their third collaboration and lead an all-star cast for their upcoming production of Shakespeare’s King Lear, adapted and directed by BAFTA and Olivier Award-winning director Richard ...

Or when a patriarch succumbs to flattery over a more difficult truth? Shakespeare asks these questions and more in King Lear, his study of political vacuums and family dynamics. The ageing King ...

Olivier Award winner Conleth Hill takes the lead role, with Jolly Abraham, Eavan Gaffney and Emma Dargan-Reid as Lear’s daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Roxana Silbert, a former associate ...