King Lear

Looking like Albus Dumbledore gone haywire, Christopher Plummer embodies the aged charm and seismic ferocity of Shakespeare’s tragic monarch, shifting from an endearing old lug to a bedeviled loon to a pitiable fool over the course of this three-hour-plus show. Supported by a fine cast (including Brent Carver as the heroic Edgar and James Blendick as the sympathetic Gloucester), all richly attired in Clare Mitchell’s meticulous Elizabethan costumes, Plummer truly carries a thoroughly solid — but solidly unspectacular — production. (TC)