'King Lear'

“No man will ever write a better tragedy than Lear,” mused playwright George Bernard Shaw in the preface of his 1901 collection Three Plays for Puritans. Written in the 17th century by William Shakespeare, King Lear follows a monarch who parts with his kingdom and declines into madness. Actors From the London Stage, a touring Shakespeare theater company cofounded in 1975 by actor Patrick Stewart, bring the popular work to Burlington. Each actor takes on multiple roles in this production copresented by the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts and the University of Vermont Lane Series.