Music Review | 'King Lear': Poor King Lear, Alone but in a Crowd
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Wu Hsing-kuoâs remarkable one-man âKing Lear,â which the Lincoln Center Festival presented on Thursday, expanded codified Chinese opera style to include Buddhist chant, contemporary music and electronics, and Western elements â beyond Shakespeareâs play itself, of course.
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Rituparno GhoshÂs THE LAST LEAR had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday,   9th September.
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Experienced director  Daniel Sullivan surrounds his outrageous young Hamlet, played  by Hamish Linklater, with a bland if steady supporting cast and  a safe, conventional setting. The resulting production scurries  along with such unreflecting alacrity, and corresponding lack  of emotional complexity, that it only begins to suggest why  there&#39;s such a fuss about &quot;Hamlet.&quot;
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The complete literary works of Shakespeare are set to be performed in a single season for the first time.
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In ÂCopying BeethovenÂ Ed Harris proves an ideal substitute for the deaf, brooding composer, acting with a violent turbulence that sometimes floods the room.
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Ian McKellen is a great--and famous--actor. âKing Learâ is great Shakespeare. Together theyâre the hottest ticket in the country.
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Bollywood's inimitable diva Rekha has spoken candidly about Amitabh Bachchan, saying he taught her the nuances of acting. She praised his performance in "Last Lear" as "very Shakespearean".
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Tycho:  Page Two of "In The Service Of The Queen" will be available shortly, as he's taking the process very seriously.  Writing ridiculous poems used to be something I did with much more frequency, though it still happens occasionally. I did, at one point, seize the entire site to host a comic musical about TRON.  The urge just rears up sometimes, swiping at the air with its claws, and I must feed it tender, rhyming couplets to bed it back down.
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Songs from a new musical about the rise and fall of Britain's former home secretary David Blunkett were rolled out in a tiny English country pub, heard by a handful of bemused regulars.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ  uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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It was an off-Broadway rave, but this play has more trite than bite
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âRise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny,â is the most ambitious product of the collaboration between Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. It is also the hardest of their works to pull off.
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Legal debate and lyricism in âMargaret Garner,â an opera imbued with gospel and spirituals.
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Concert-stage performances of American Indian dance and music are rare in New York City. But âThe Drum Is the Thunder, the Flute Is the Windâ was often disappointing.
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Amitabh Bachchan talks about his new film, The Last Lear, which premiered at the 32nd Toronto International Film Festival.
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Hesketh Miller appreciates an audience as much as the next musician. He's just not sure his potential audiences always appreciate him.
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The quality of Martin  Short's musical revue is well encapsulated by what has become  his trademark pose. Hands on hips, staring off into the  distance, he embraces the adulation of his audience while at  the same time slyly mocking his need for it.