Riverside Shakespeare Company
In 1985 the Riverside Shakespeare Company presented the New York premiere of "The History of King Lear", adapted with a happy ending by 18th-century English Poet Laureate, Nahum Tate, from William Shakespeare's "King Lear". The production was directed by W. Stuart McDowell, produced by Andrew B. Harris, who had joined Riverside as its executive director at the beginning of the season.
Cecilia Banu
Banu translated much of her husband, Abolqasem Lahouti's oeuvre into Russian. She also worked with him in the translation of Russian and European works into the Tajik language. "King Lear", which had been presented in Yiddish to great acclaim by Solomon Mikhoels and the Moscow State Jewish Theatre, was one translation; another was "Othello", which was presented in Tajik during the Decade of Tajik Art in Moscow in 1941.