John Gielgud. Laurence Olivier. Orson Welles. Ian McKellen. Anthony Hopkins. On stage and screen, those who have taken up the title role in Shakespeare’s King Lear form a roster of the West’s most renowned actors. As Lear they play with power and insecurity, the rites of age and the dangers of vanity. The torch now passes to Kenneth Branagh. At the Shed, in Manhattan, Branagh completes a personal trifecta of tragic Shakespeare roles: he appeared as Hamlet in the 1996 film (which he also directed) and as Macbeth in a 2014 production at the Park Avenue Armory. He joins a cast of younger stars for this run, including Jessica Revell as Cordelia and Deborah Alli as Goneril. —Jack Sullivan