The New York Times Author: Ben Brantley Article Mentions
Author, Ben BrantleyMentioned, Karen Brooks Hopkins Mentioned, Jeff Moore Mentioned, Philip Winchester Mentioned, Romola Garai Mentioned, Joseph V. Melillo Mentioned, Alan H. Fishman Mentioned, Karen Brooks Mentioned, Elizabeth Taylor Mentioned, Harold Bloom Mentioned, Ian McKellen Mentioned, The New York Times Mentioned, BAM
@import url(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/css/article/screen/print.css); King Lear and The Seagull - Theater - Review - New York Times var google_hints = "Theater,Royal+Shakespeare+Co,Brooklyn+Academy+of+Music"; var google_ad_channel = "ar_theater"; September 14, 2007 THEATER REVIEW | 'KING LEAR' AND 'THE SEAGULL' Lear Stripped Bare By BEN BRANTLEY You see how full of changes his age is, an exasperated woman says of her father, as if he were a quarrelsome toddler instead of a forbidding man of power in his 80s. The words are muttered with contempt in the Royal Shakespeare Companys production of King Lear, now at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. But they might be spoken in wonder by anyone who sees Ian McKellen in the tit...(read more)
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... president; William I. Campbell, vice chairman; Joseph V. Melillo, executive producer. At the Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton Street, Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100. In repertory through Sept. 30. Running time: King Lear, 3 hours 30 minutes; The Seagull, 3 h ...
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