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President Trump named himself the storied Washington arts center's chairman and replaced board members with Trump allies.

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Ohio Shakespeare Festival announces six-show 2025-26 season, starting with "The Tempest" and "King Lear" at Stan Hywet Hall & ...

“I was actually involved with a group of schoolchildren in Gaza who were performing and rehearsing their own shortened version of King Lear. What they were doing was unimaginably beautiful. “The way ...

London's Globe Theatre has run seminars titled "Anti-Racist Shakespeare", where academics claimed King Lear was about "whiteness" and that Prince Hamlet holds "racist" views of black people.