Is there a British equivalent for machismo?
None at all, replies his English friend, who then reconsiders: Maybe Glenda Jackson.
Machismo just begins to graze it.

Credit: Brigitte Lacombe
If there is any confusion, lets clear up that this is no Queen Lear variation.
Here, he has placed the action somewhere between the champagne late-70s and an familiarly ostentatious present.
(Set design is by Miriam Buether.)
This is Broadway in 2019: Everything is a reminder of Donald J. Trump.
you’re able to hardly stage a play about a delusional autocrat these days without evoking him.
She offers her own take on male frailty and hubris, her voice booming, her focus astonishing.
Composer Philip Glass also 82, if we are keeping track has written a new score for this production.
When portraying honest Cordelia, Wilson is, by contrast, contained and earnest.