Review: ‘deLEARious’, will keep you laughing and learning from 60 A.D. through 2017

In deLEARious, a crazy and quick-witted comedy put on by Open Fist Theatre Company at Atwater Village Theatre, the talented cast simultaneously tells the stories of King Lear, Shakespeare writing King Lear, and even the writing of deLEARious itself- try to keep up! King Lear, with seemingly never-ending duplicity and role-changing characters, can be hard to follow. Open Fist’s take, which tells the story using different … Continue reading Review: ‘deLEARious’, will keep you laughing and learning from 60 A.D. through 2017

Shakespeare’s Lear Reversed and Righteous

Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum opened their summer season of Shakespeare with Lear last night, only it wasn’t a king that set out to divide his kingdom in three amongst his beloved daughters, but rather a queen, who by her own procured demise, divides her “queendom” into a mere two, casting her most beloved third son (bearing the same name as the original) Cordelian, off to … Continue reading Shakespeare’s Lear Reversed and Righteous