Olympia Dukakis, Austin Pendleton Set for Benefit Reading of King Lear

Academy Award-winner Olympia Dukakis will play the title role in HERO Theatre’s benefit staged reading of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, to be presented at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre/Laura Pels Theatre, on Monday, May 21 at 7:30pm. Austin Pendleton will direct.

HERO Theatre’s mission is to build bridges between various cultures by way of the classics.

This performance is part of the company’s fundraising efforts to present its first full-scale production, a world-premiere of a new translation of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, translated by noted Russian writer Tatyana Tolstaya and distinguished playwright Migdalia Cruz.

Click here for more information and King Lear benefit tickets.