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King Lear

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King Lear

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Opened on March 7, 2007
Closed on March 25, 2007

Location:
The Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10003
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Synopsis:
The Public Theater presents William Shakespeare's King Lear, directed by Tony Award-winner James Lapine and starring Kevin Kline in the title role.

A Juilliard graduate, Kevin Kline made his Broadway debut playing Vershinin in Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters for John Houseman's The Acting Company, of which he is a founding member. His other Broadway credits include Hal Prince's On the Twentieth Century, for which he won both a Tony and a Drama Desk Award; Michael Weller's Loose Ends; Shaw's Arms and the Man directed by John Malkovich; Gerald...

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Location:
The Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10003

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King Lear
Kevin Kline's performance in the title role is the most pressing reason to see James Lapine's hit-and-miss production of Shakespeare's tragedy.
Reviewed by: David Finkle »

THEATER NEWS
Bryggman, Cerveris, et al. to Join Kevin Kline in Public's King Lear; Sondheim to Write Music
The entire cast and creative team have been announced for The Public Theater's new production of W...
By: Brian Scott Lipton »

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July 2008

Working Title

[title of show] transfers to Broadway, while Sean Hayes, Jane Krakowski, and Cheyenne Jackson headline Damn Yankees and Jonathan Groff, Will Swenson, and Caryn Lyn-Manuel star in Hair. Additional highlights include Alan Cumming in The Bacchae, Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes in Gate/Beckett, and Jamie Farr and Anita Gillette in Flamingo Court. Full Story

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