What do you do with a bad king? And what do you do when that bad king is (allegedly) appointed by God? Shakespeare’s Richard II is a play that asks us, among other things, what it means to have power, ...

Richard II is charismatic, eloquent and loved by his friends. And a disastrous King – dishonest, capricious and politically incompetent. Echoing down the centuries is the perennial problem: how to ...

Shakespeare’s Richard II, co-produced by Perspective Theatre Company, chronicles the historical and compelling saga of King Richard II including his controversial time in power, familial conflicts and ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Relics from the tomb of the medieval King Richard II have been found by an archivist researching the papers of the National Portrait Gallery's first director George Scharf, the ...

Thirty years ago, when the Seattle Repertory Theatre was in shaky shape, a production of Shakespeare's "King Richard II" turned the company's luck around. Today the Seattle Shakespeare Company is ...

Smith Street Stage is performing Shakespeare’s rarely-produced history, “Richard II,” at the Mark O’Donnell Theater ahead of the presidential election this fall. The show aims to shed light on the ...

Under Rupert Goold’s artistic directorship the Almeida has become renowned as a theatre where classical texts are given the equivalent of ECT, and Hill-Gibbins quickly sets out his intentions by ...

“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.” OK, that’s the wrong play since it’s a line from “Macbeth,” but it best sums up Jonathan Bailey’s performance in the new London production of ...