“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”

HVS Artistic Director, Davis McCallum directs Shakespeare’s searing tragedy featuring Kurt Rhoads in the title role. An aging monarch divides his kingdom among daughters from whom he demands love as proof of loyalty, igniting a chain of betrayal and destruction that shatters both family and state. As power corrodes reason and madness rises with the storm, Lear is cast into a furious tempest of his own making. There, stripped of authority and illusion, he sees too late that a king must first be a man and that the hard-won price of wisdom is everything he once held dear.

  • Dates: Fri Jun 12 – Thu Sep 17, 2026
  • Times: 5:00pm, 7:00pm, 7:30pm
  • Run time: 165 mins

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Friday June 12, 2026

King Lear

7:30 pm

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Sunday June 14, 2026

King Lear

7:30 pm

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Wednesday June 17, 2026

King Lear

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Sunday June 21, 2026

King Lear

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Monday June 22, 2026

King Lear

7:30 pm

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Wednesday July 1, 2026

Monday July 6, 2026

King Lear

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Wednesday July 8, 2026

Sunday July 12, 2026

King Lear

5:00 pm

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Saturday July 18, 2026

King Lear

7:30 pm

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Monday July 20, 2026

King Lear

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Wednesday July 22, 2026

Sunday July 26, 2026

King Lear

5:00 pm

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Wednesday July 29, 2026

Sunday August 2, 2026

King Lear

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Thursday August 20, 2026

Sunday August 23, 2026

Friday August 28, 2026

Wednesday September 9, 2026

Thursday September 17, 2026

Cast

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Kurt Rhoads

King Lear (King Lear), Adam (As You Like It)

King Lear

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Zach Fine

Earl of Kent (King Lear), Silvius (As You Like It)

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Lucas Hakoshima

U/S Orlando (As You Like It), France (King Lear), Ensemble (Les Misérables)

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Sean McNall

Duke of Cornwall (King Lear), Jacques (As You Like It)

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Mateo Parodi

Burgundy, French Captain (King Lear), Charles (As You Like It)

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Ronald Sopyla

Old Man, Doctor, U/S Gloucester, Fool (King Lear), U/S Duke Senior (As You Like It)