King Lear in Brooklyn
Theatre for a New Audience
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- Company
- Theatre for a New Audience
- Venue
- Polonsky Shakespeare Center
- Location
- Brooklyn, New York
- Dates
- February 28, 2027 – March 28, 2027
- Season
- 2027
About
What is learned from losing everything? In King Lear, a tyrant is brought low—and to self-knowledge—by a cruel cascade of events he himself sets in motion. As a family tears itself apart and a kingdom descends into chaos, Shakespeare charts the unraveling of a ruler who believes himself godlike. It depicts, at once, the fracturing of state, family, and self.