Jayne Houdyshell, left, as Gloucester and Glenda Jackson as Lear in director Sam Gold’s “King Lear” on Broadway. (Brigitte Lacombe)Theater critic“Reason not the need!” King Lear declares. And they prove to be a useful guideline as you try to puzzle out what director Sam Gold is up to on this confoundingly muddled evening. In bringing “King Lear” into the Cort, there must have been an assumption that the audience would be intimately familiar with the tragedy’s particulars. King Lear, by William Shakespeare.

Source: Washington Post April 05, 2019 00:00 UTC