![]() Seriously, one couldn’t help noticing that Ms. That gender-bending issue proved here not to be so focal as much as her age – Glenda Jackson is simply too young (“kidding, not kidding,” as the children say). The King Lear production, currently in previews, is directed by Sam Gold and offers a chance to see the legendary Glenda Jackson in the classically male title role that she brought to the Old Vic in London three years ago, causing quite a stir. 1937), and Harry Wimmer’s program “Laugh a Little” blending his highly celebrated cello playing with related puns, witticisms, and sayings of Shakespeare and others. Both evenings were a mix of the theatrical and the musical, King Lear drawing many musicians to hear the incidental music composed especially for it by Philip Glass (b. ![]() One was a play at the Cort Theatre with the inimitable Glenda Jackson, age 83, in the title role of Shakespeare’s King Lear, and the other was a cello concert at Symphony Space (the Thalia) by Harry Wimmer, now in his nineties. George Bernard Shaw wrote that “We don’t stop playing because we grow old we grow old because we stop playing.” Saint Patrick’s Day seems a good time to remember these words of the wise Dubliner, and two age-defying performances in New York this past weekend seemed to support that saying.
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