Lear

1 “As an actor, as an adult, as a maturing older man, I needed to be absolutely more centered in myself, because ‘Lear’ is a mountain to climb.”

2 Murphy, the writer, director and producer whose credits also include "Nip/Tuck" and "Popular," described Lear as "the biggest shaper of my ideological life."

3 Perry grew up watching Lear’s groundbreaking television shows, and was awed by how several presented a fuller version of Black lives onto American television screens for the first time.

4 In “King Lear” Edmund and Lear never appear onstage together and so, except for the curtain call, neither will Eric and I.

5 Meanwhile, we don’t know how our version of “King Lear” will end.

6 Kenya Barris, "black-ish" creator, credits ABC for being "diligent in letting us do issue-related comedy. It sort of hearkens back to the time of Norman Lear, when comedy actually opened up conversations."

7 There’s more than a trace of Lewis Carroll crossed with Caryl Churchill in Mr. Crimp’s cityscape, where, by play’s end, the blind are literally leading the blind, nodding at one point at “King Lear.”

8 Mr. Lear left television around the time his first wife, Frances, separated from him.

9 Nabokov's quiz question: what are the names of King Lear's dogs?

10 A clap-along song, with accordion, begins the Shakespeare’s Globe production of “King Lear” that can be seen — and, if you’re a quick study, maybe sung along with — at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.

11 If you do the math, you’ll see that Lear was still in his teens when it began to appear.

12 Shakespeare & Company, as its name implies, goes heavy on classics — starting July 2, Christopher Lloyd plays King Lear — while Barrington Stage Company focuses on musicals and new plays.

13 And when she strides onstage in an opening scene that will famously reduce Lear’s family to tatters, Ms. Jackson at once communicates a power and an authority that you mess with at your peril.

14 This error and other observations about the “failings” of giants in the industry like Norman Lear are so flawed, I think I’ll skip the book, and wish I’d done so with the review.

15 Fans of this sitcom — a remake of Norman Lear’s original — were up in arms last year when Netflix canceled the show after three seasons.

16 The speeches in Lear were meant to be spoken not sung, and the wrought arioso of Goehr's vocal writing is no substitute for their meaning and expressive power.

17 But Thone is vivid and heartbreaking in the latter half, in ways that suggest how much Titus was Shakespeare's warm-up for another tragic patriarchal figure, King Lear.

18 This past weekend, as coronavirus radiated across the country and sent Americans scurrying into their homes, Rosanne Cash tweeted: “Just a reminder that when Shakespeare was quarantined because of the plague, he wrote King Lear.”

19 This documentary begins with Mr. Lear’s Connecticut childhood and follows him to Hollywood, “All in the Family” and decades of success.

20 That we’re too eager to conceive of Lear as a figure of grandeur may help to explain why on too many occasions, the play itself feels grandiose.

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