The Old Globe presents the first offering in the 2017 Summer Shakespeare Festival: William Shakespeare's epic King Richard II, helmed by award-winning director Erica Schmidt (Off Broadway's A Month in ...

The story of Shakespeare’s “Richard II” revolves around two men who would be king. The story of the Old Globe Theatre’s return to the darkly poetic history play, though, revolves around two artists ...

Hyperion Shakespeare Company’s “Richard II” wants very badly to explore the politics of gender. The production, which ran this weekend in the Horner Room of the Agassiz Theater, brings an all-female ...

If it’s possible to say about a work of Shakespeare, Richard II is perhaps the most underrated of the Bard’s plays in the most underrated genre of his work. I used to play the Shakespeare quiz on ...

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In an inspired adaptation to the times, Shakespeare in the Park becomes Shakespare on the Radio next week, as the Public Theater and WNYC team up for a serialized production of Richard II. Originally ...

The Public Theater’s production of Shakespeare’s Richard II, originally slated to begin its 2020 Free Shakespeare in the Park season at the Delacorte Theater in New York’s Central Park, will still go ...

The key to Michael Grandage's success is his unfashionable refusal to give audiences an easy ride. For his farewell as a.d. of London's Donmar Warehouse he has chosen Shakespeare's "Richard II," an ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Richard II and Henry V are the bookends of the four Shakespeare history plays that include Henry IV Parts 1 and 2. Richard is deposed by his cousin Bolingbroke, who thus ...

Chicago's Sandbox Theatre Collective and Circuit Theatre Company present RICHARD II, the first of Shakespeare's history plays, to be held Saturday April 27th, Sunday April 28th, and Monday April 29th ...

Relics from the tomb of the medieval English King Richard II -- including wood from his coffin and sketches of his skull -- have been found by London's National Portrait Gallery. An archivist at ...

Hidden deep within Building D of Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, the Magic Theatre is nestled behind an art supply store, producing a remarkable array of productions that speak to the current ...