Archives for: " 2011, week 19"

Review: King Lear

Most actors play King Lear as an imperial monarch, the better to contrast with the character’s subsequent descent into madness. But in the new production of the play at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, veteran British actor Derek Jacobi (of I, Claudius fam… more »

Review: Julia

That life doesn’t always offer the opportunity to neatly right past wrongs is a promising theme for a drama. Too bad, then, that Julia squanders it.       The central character is Lou, a clearly ill man in his seventies who wanders into a rundown coffe… more »