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Search the Archive
Shakespeare Collection
All's Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Henry IV
Henry V
Henry VI
Henry VIII
Julius Caesar
King John
King Lear
Love's Labour's Lost
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo & Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Winter's Tale
Riffs on Shakespeare
Thoughts on Shakespeare
The collected reviews of internationally acclaimed theatre critic Robert Cushman.
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The Collected Reviews of
King Lear
in reverse chronological order
Featured
May 29, 2014
National Post
,
Shakespeare
,
Stratford Festival
More Sinned Against
May 29, 2014
National Post
,
Shakespeare
,
Stratford Festival
May 29, 2014
National Post
,
Shakespeare
,
Stratford Festival
May 26, 2014
National Post
,
Shakespeare
,
Thoughts On Shakespeare
The Year of Lear; Once Thought Too Painful to Perform, Shakespeare's Merciless & Kingly Tale Calls Out the Best in Those Who Present It, Which in 2014 Seems to be Everyone
May 26, 2014
National Post
,
Shakespeare
,
Thoughts On Shakespeare
May 26, 2014
National Post
,
Shakespeare
,
Thoughts On Shakespeare
May 28, 2011
National Post
,
Shakespeare
,
Thoughts On Shakespeare
Shards of the Bard
May 28, 2011
National Post
,
Shakespeare
,
Thoughts On Shakespeare
May 28, 2011
National Post
,
Shakespeare
,
Thoughts On Shakespeare
September 11, 2008
National Post
,
Stratford Festival
Eye for Actors and a Nose for the Text
September 11, 2008
National Post
,
Stratford Festival
September 11, 2008
National Post
,
Stratford Festival
May 30, 2007
Festival Theatre
,
Shakespeare
,
Stratford Festival
,
National Post
A Monarch Divided as He Seems to mend
May 30, 2007
Festival Theatre
,
Shakespeare
,
Stratford Festival
,
National Post
May 30, 2007
Festival Theatre
,
Shakespeare
,
Stratford Festival
,
National Post
October 14, 2006
Soulpepper
,
Shakespeare
,
Riffs on Shakespeare
,
Contemporary
,
National Post
William Webster Can't Escape King Lear; Plays Him Straight, and With a Twist
October 14, 2006
Soulpepper
,
Shakespeare
,
Riffs on Shakespeare
,
Contemporary
,
National Post
October 14, 2006
Soulpepper
,
Shakespeare
,
Riffs on Shakespeare
,
Contemporary
,
National Post
September 11, 2006
Shakespeare
,
Soulpepper
,
National Post
For This Take on the Bard, It's All About Family Matters
September 11, 2006
Shakespeare
,
Soulpepper
,
National Post
September 11, 2006
Shakespeare
,
Soulpepper
,
National Post
April 5, 2004
Shakespeare
,
Stratford Festival
,
National Post
When Ustinov Was King; Peter Ustinov put his obsession with Lear to good use at Stratford
April 5, 2004
Shakespeare
,
Stratford Festival
,
National Post
April 5, 2004
Shakespeare
,
Stratford Festival
,
National Post
August 26, 2002
Shakespeare
,
Stratford Festival
,
National Post
His Performance Is Fit For a King
August 26, 2002
Shakespeare
,
Stratford Festival
,
National Post
August 26, 2002
Shakespeare
,
Stratford Festival
,
National Post
January 10, 2000
Riffs on Shakespeare
,
Necessary Angel
,
National Post
,
Shakespeare
This Is a Lear Who's Read Lear
January 10, 2000
Riffs on Shakespeare
,
Necessary Angel
,
National Post
,
Shakespeare
January 10, 2000
Riffs on Shakespeare
,
Necessary Angel
,
National Post
,
Shakespeare
November 12, 1996
Shakespeare
,
Globe and Mail
,
Stratford Festival
William Hutt Gives Performance Fit For a King
November 12, 1996
Shakespeare
,
Globe and Mail
,
Stratford Festival
November 12, 1996
Shakespeare
,
Globe and Mail
,
Stratford Festival
June 5, 1983
Observer
,
Royal Shakespeare Company
,
Shakespeare
Waspish Celebration
June 5, 1983
Observer
,
Royal Shakespeare Company
,
Shakespeare
June 5, 1983
Observer
,
Royal Shakespeare Company
,
Shakespeare
April 10, 1983
Film
,
Observer
,
Shakespeare
Every Inch, a King
April 10, 1983
Film
,
Observer
,
Shakespeare
April 10, 1983
Film
,
Observer
,
Shakespeare
July 4, 1982
Observer
,
Royal Shakespeare Company
,
Shakespeare
Kings and Clowns
July 4, 1982
Observer
,
Royal Shakespeare Company
,
Shakespeare
July 4, 1982
Observer
,
Royal Shakespeare Company
,
Shakespeare
May 8, 1977
Royal Shakespeare Company
Home With Sir Ralph
May 8, 1977
Royal Shakespeare Company
May 8, 1977
Royal Shakespeare Company
December 5, 1976
Royal Shakespeare Company
,
Shakespeare
,
Observer
Updating King Lear
December 5, 1976
Royal Shakespeare Company
,
Shakespeare
,
Observer
December 5, 1976
Royal Shakespeare Company
,
Shakespeare
,
Observer