Ms. Jackson did indeed show up on Broadway a little more than a year later. But it was not as Shakespeare’s ultimate angry old man but as the angry old woman of Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women,” for which Ms. Jackson won a Tony for Best Actress in a Play.

Now, a mere (and one hopes, for her, very restful) year later, Ms. Jackson will be reincarnating the most challenging role in the Shakespeare canon, but with a different director and supporting cast. The “King Lear” opening in April at the Cort Theater will be staged by Sam Gold, who showed an original and subversive hand for Shakespeare in starry productions of “Othello,” with Daniel Craig and David Oyelowo, and “Hamlet,” in which Oscar Isaac was the Prince of Denmark. (His “Lear” casts Ruth Wilson as both the King’s Fool and one of his daughters.)

“Burn This,” an intense, four-character study of love and grief in a New York loft, had been expected to come to the Hudson Theater in early 2017. That production was to be headlined by Jake Gyllenhaal — in the role of a foul-mouthed, cocaine-hoovering restaurateur named Pale — and directed by Michael Mayer. It was subsequently announced that because of “scheduling conflicts with the show’s star,” the opening of “Burn This” would probably be “during the 2017-2018 season.”

The version of “Burn This” finally scheduled to open on April 16 will, as promised, be staged by Mr. Mayer at the Hudson. But its Pale is now Mr. Driver, playing opposite Keri Russell as a dancer in mourning (for her recently deceased roommate, Pale’s brother).