Chester Theatre Company presents THE STORY OF KING LEAR August 27 at 7:00 PM available to watch through August 30 The Story of King Lear is a 50-minute telling of the Shakespeare classic adapted and directed by CTC Producing Artistic Director Daniel Elihu Kramer. Stage, film and television veteran Michael Potts takes on the title role as Lear. Known to TV audiences for his arc as Brother Mouzone in the celebrated series The Wire, Potts is also in the upcoming film version of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom starring Viola Davis. Broadway audiences will know him from August Wilson's Jitney, and musicals The Prom, Book of Mormon, and Grey Gardens. Shelley Fort, who starred in CTC's 2016 production of The Mountaintop, returns to the CTC "stage" for her second appearance with the company. Fort has also appeared in productions at Trinity Repertory Theatre, La Mama, The Bushwick Starr and others. Most recently, she was in the Broadway National Tour of The Play That Goes Wrong. She's a graduate of Kenyon College and Brown/Trinity Rep. Berkshire Theatre Critics Association Award-winners Tara Franklin (CTC's Associate Artistic Director and star of last season's On the Exhale), and James Barry (CTC's The Aliens, The Night Alive, and Sister Play) also star. This event is a virtual benefit for Chester Theatre Company. Watch here.