(April 25, Walter Kerr Theater) KING LEAR Along with the usual glittering handful of London imports, mostly on Broadway, comes one major event happening elsewhere: the great actor Derek Jacobi's acclaimed "King Lear" arrives at the Brooklyn Academy of Music for a monthlong run.
August Wilson's new play at the Virginia Theater, "King Hedley II," is an Old World edifice.
Well, we get to hang out in an incredible city, soaking up the once-in-a-lifetime energy where theater is king, and interacting with hundreds of other performers all trying to make it happen.
Admission, $13, students and 60+, $9; children, $7. Theater 'MONKEY KING IN AMERICA: DAY JOBS, OPERA DREAMS,' puppets, opera and drama by Chinese Theater Works, Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Harry de Jur Playhouse, Abrons Art Center, 466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, (212) 598-0400.
But the title "movie theater mogul" has about as much prestige as "king of an anthill".
After an unprecedented eight gigs scattered around New York City from Carnegie Hall to Brooklyn's Kings Theater to Manhattan's City Center for her closing nights, Vulnicura came to blossom.
The 93-year-old movie house, designed by Thomas W. Lamb, who was considered the king of theater architects, never missed a day of showings until it closed last March, making it the longest-continuously operated cinema in the country, according to the Theater Historical Society of America.
PAGE C1 Theater Review A King Takes to the Stage Unlike most Shakespeare plays, "Henry V" contains only one truly central character, the king himself.
"RIBBETT, OR THE FROG THAT WOULD BE KING," a theater piece based on the fairy tale of the frog prince, to be performed by the Pied Piper Children's Theater of New York City, at Holy Trinity Church-Inwood, 20 Cumming Street.
Eviction of a Legend Think of Stella Adler, and one almost instantly imagines the fervent early years of American theater, when Stanislavsky was king, matinee tickets were $1 and theaters were grand.
Christian's evident delight in his friendship with the worldly Johann and in his newfound understanding of the theater of politics (the king is, after all, a Shakespeare buff) is matched by a growing paranoia that he is but a pawn, by turns manipulated and indulged by everyone around him.
