In 1975, actor Patrick Stewart founded a traveling theatre company called Actors From The London Stage, which visits universities around the world.
This year’s troupe — member of which all hail from prestigious theater companies including the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre — are coming to Houston to perform their production of Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear at Rice University Jan. 31 — Feb. 2.
In the audio above, Craig Cohen chats with troupe members Fred Lancaster and Jonathan Dryden Taylor and with local Shakespeare expert Joe Campana about Lear and its relevance in 2019 America.