King Lear Tickets

Glenda Jackson made a triumphant return to Broadway last year after a 30-year absence, winning every possible award for her performance in the smash hit revival of Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, including the Tony Award®, Drama Desk Award, Drama League Award and Outer Critics Circle Award. Jackson’s return to Broadway was hailed by critics and audiences as the theatrical event of the season, and the production broke the Golden Theatre’s house record five times. Jackson’s first Academy Award® came in 1970 with Ken Russell’s film Women in Love. She went on to star in film classics such as Sunday Bloody Sunday, for which she received an Academy Award nomination and a BAFTA Award, and A Touch of Class, for which she won her second Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Her films also include Mary, Queen of Scots; The Romantic Englishwoman; Hedda (Academy Award nomination); The Incredible Sarah; House Calls; and Stevie. In 1971, Ms. Jackson starred as Queen Elizabeth I in the BBC serial Elizabeth R, for which she received two Emmy® Awards. She was also nominated for Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for The Patricia Neal Story. Ms. Jackson began her stage career as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. She made her Broadway debut in 1965 in The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, and went on to star in Rose (1981), Strange Interlude (1985), and Macbeth (1988), receiving a Tony Award nomination for each performance. Ms. Jackson spent 23 years as a Member of Parliament and in 2016, returned to acting, playing the title role in Shakespeare’s King Lear at The Old Vic, for which she received the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress, and a Critics Circle Award for Best Shakespearean Performance. Ms. Jackson was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1978.

Ruth Wilson is a two-time Olivier Award winner and Golden Globe Award winner, and made her Broadway debut in Nick Payne’s Constellations, opposite Jake Gyllenhaal. She is best known for her role as Alison Lockhart in the Showtime series The Affair (Golden Globe Award). Film credits include The Little Stranger, Dark River, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, Suite Française, Locke, Saving Mr. Banks, The Lone Ranger, and Anna Karenina. She received Olivier Awards for Best Actress for Anna Christie opposite Jude Law, and Best Supporting Actress for A Streetcar Named Desire opposite Rachel Weisz, both at the Donmar Warehouse. She was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actress for Hedda Gabler at the National Theatre. On television, Wilson starred in the acclaimed BBC series Luther, which was nominated for eight Emmy Awards. She received BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Lead Actress for the BBC miniseries Jane Eyre. She debuted on the London stage in 2007 in the National Theatre’s production of Maxim Gorky’s Philistines, and starred in the Almeida Theatre adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s Through a Glass Darkly.

LCT: The New Century. Broadway: The Music Man (2022 Tony nomination); King Lear; A Doll’s House, Part 2 (2017 Tony nomination); The Humans (2016 Tony Award); Fish in the Dark; Dead Accounts; Romeo and Juliet; Follies (2012 Tony nomination); The Importance of Being Earnest; Bye Bye Birdie; Wicked; Well (2016 Tony nomination, Theatre World Award). Off-Broadway: The Pain and the Itch (Playwrights Horizons), Well (The Public), The Language Archive (Roundabout), Relevance (MCC), The Receptionist (MTC), Much Ado About Nothing(Shakespeare in the Park). Two Drama Desk awards, two Obies and the Lily Award. Regional credits include classical and modern plays at Yale Rep, McCarter, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arena Stage, Alabama Shakespeare Festival and many others. Film: Causeway, The Humans,Litle Women, The Chaperone, Everybody’s Fine, Changing Lanes, Garden State. TV: Only Murders in the Building, The Good Fight, Evil, Law & Order: SVU, Elementary, Blue Bloods.

Pedro Pascal makes his Broadway debut in King Lear. He has appeared off-Broadway in Jordan Harrison’s Maple and Vine (Playwrights Horizons); Nilo Cruz’s Beauty of the Father and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Based on a Totally True Story (Manhattan Theatre Club); Trista Baldwin’s Sand (Women’s Project Theater); David Greenspan’s Old Comedy (CSC Theatre); Terence McNally’s Some Men (Second Stage); and Shakespeare in the Park’s Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing. He also directed underneathmybed, Killing Play, and Yosemite at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. He received the Los Angeles Critics Circle Award and Garland Award for his performance in the International City Theater’s production of Orphans. He is best known for his roles as Oberyn Martel in the HBO series Game of Thrones, and Javier Peña in the Netflix series, Narcos. Other television credits include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Good Wife, Brothers and Sisters, Lights Out, Homeland, The Mentalist, Red Widow, Nurse Jackie, Body of Proof, Without a Trace, NYPD Blue, Graceland, and all three Law & Order shows. Film credits include If Beale Street Could Talk, The Equalizer 2; Wonder Woman 1984; Kingsman: The Golden Circle; Prospect; The Adjustment Bureau; The Great Wall; Sweet Little Lies; I Am That Girl; Sisters (Hermanas); and Window Shopping. He is a member of the LAByrinth Theater Company.

Elizabeth Marvel has appeared on Broadway in Picnic, Other Desert Cities, Top Girls, Seascape, An American Daughter, Taking Sides, and The Seagull. Off-Broadway credits include Almost an Evening(Atlantic Theatre Company); Dark Matters (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); Hedda Gabler (Obie Award); A Streetcar Named Desire (Obie); Shopping and Fucking (New York Theatre Workshop); Thérèse Raquin (Obie, CSC); Misalliance (Obie, Roundabout Theatre Company); and Julius Caesar; Troilus and Cressida; King Lear; and Silence, Cunning, Exile (Public Theater). Regional: McCarter Theatre, Guthrie Theater, American Repertory Theater, Stratford Theatre Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Film and Television: Pretty Bird, Burn After Reading, The Dying Gaul, Ten Hundred Kings, True Grit, The Bourne Legacy, Lincoln, and Hyde Park on Hudson, House of Cards (Netflix), Homeland (Showtime), A Dog Year (HBO), The District (CBS), Kidnapped, Nurse Jackie, 30 Rock, The Newsroom, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Homicide. Training: Juilliard.

Aisling O’Sullivan makes her Broadway debut in King Lear. She studied at Dublin’s Gaiety School of Acting and joined the Abbey Theatre in 1991, where her credits included Marble, The Wake, Lay Me Down Softly, The Famine, The Honeyspike, Silverhands, The Winter Thief, Away Alone, The Corsican Brothers, The Power of Darkness, and The Murphy Initiative. Other theatre credits include The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Playboy of the Western World, Big Maggie, Bailegagaire, and The Approach at the Druid Theatre, and Crestfall at The Gate Theatre. London: Liola, Mutabilitie, and The Cripple of Inishmaan at the National Theatre; The Duchess of Malfi at the Royal Shakespeare Company; The Maids at the Young Vic Theatre; Miss Julie at the Haymarket Theatre; and Hysteria at The Royal Court and the Duke of York’s Theatre. Film credits include Michael Collins, The Butcher Boy, The Actors, The One and Only, The Announcement, The American, The War Zone, and Six Shooter. Television: The Clinic (Irish Film and Television Award), Raw, Me and Mrs. Jones, Shockers, Life Support and Cracker, among others.

Broadway credits include Carousel, Jitney (Tony Award nomination), A Time to Kill, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Julius Caesar. Off-Broadway: Julius Caesar, King Lear, The Iceman Cometh (Obie Award, Drama Desk Award), A Doll’s House, The Father, Macbeth, Othello (Obie, Lucille Lortel Award), Tamburlaine the Great (Obie, Drama Desk), Satchmo at the Waldorf (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award, NAACP Theatre Award), The Emperor Jones, and Hedda Gabler. Regional: Hamlet, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Ovation Award), Richard III, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Barrymore Award). Film: The Bourne Legacy, Glass Chin, Michael Layton, and Wolves. Television: Bull, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Law & Order: SVU, Madam Secretary and Person of Interest.

Russell Harvard most recently starred as Duke of Cornwall opposite Glenda Jackson in Sam Gold’s Broadway production of King Lear. He was also recently in I Was Most Alive with You at Playwrights Horizons, in a role Craig Lucas wrote specifically for him and earned him a Drama Desk nomination. He also starred in Pasadena Playhouse's Our Town, Open Circle’s The Who’s Tommy, and Deaf West's acclaimed Broadway revival of Spring Awakening. In 2012, he made his off-Broadway debut in Tribes, earning a Theatre World award and receiving Drama League, Outer Critics and Lucille Lortel Award nominations. He was featured in Paul Thomas Anderson's 2008 Oscar-nominated film, There Will Be Blood, and starred in The Hammer as the first deaf person to win a collegiate wrestling championship. Russell had a multi-season role on Fargo, a recurring role on ABC Family's Switched At Birth, and has guest starred on Odd Mom Out, Fringe, and CSI: NY.

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Arden is best known for playing Tom Sawyer in Big River, a role for which he won a Tony Award Honor for Excellence in Theatre.

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BROADWAY: King Lear, Junk, War Horse, The Cherry Orchard. OFF-BWAY/REGIONAL: Henry 6, Hamlet, Richard II, Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles, An Octoroon, Great Comet 1812, Mission Drift, Kiss, Ring Twice for Miranda, Pushkin, Henry V, Comedy of Errors, Othello, Macbeth. TV/FILM: Out the Kitchen, Power Book II: Ghost, Queen of Glory. VOICE: Marvel’s Wasteland: Hawkeye, Live from Mount Olympus!, Hamlet on the Radio. ONLINE: Russian Troll Farm. NYU Grad.

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