“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 who demand 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 12 Jun – Thu 17 Sep, 2026
  • Times: 5:00pm, 7:00pm, 7:30pm
  • Run time: 150 mins

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Sunday 14 June 2026

King Lear

7:30 pm

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Wednesday 17 June 2026

King Lear

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Sunday 21 June 2026

King Lear

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Monday 22 June 2026

King Lear

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Wednesday 1 July 2026

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King Lear

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Wednesday 8 July 2026

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King Lear

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Saturday 18 July 2026

King Lear

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Monday 20 July 2026

King Lear

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Wednesday 22 July 2026

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King Lear

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Wednesday 29 July 2026

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King Lear

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Thursday 20 August 2026

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Thursday 17 September 2026