In this circa 1754 illustration, two women scold Richard III in Shakespeare's play. Universal History Archive/Getty Images) Written around 1592, William Shakespeare’s play “Richard III” follows the ...

What does it mean to see the "rudely stamped... deformed, unfinished" body of Richard III on stage? Even Shakespeare's contemporaries didn't quite know how to answer this question. The prevailing view ...

Even if you have never seen a production of William Shakespeare‘s “Richard III” you know and probably adore some version of him. The Bard’s villain of villains echoes throughout entertainment, ...

Elle While’s production fair speeds along, too, cutting a play that comes in the top five for length in the Shakespeare rankings – with a title role by some metrics the longest in the canon, ...

Richard of Gloucester is a walking contradiction–wholly appealing yet slimy and sinister. An absolute menace while letting the audience know what he’s going to do, goes off and does the thing and then ...

Those who associate Shakespeare's "bottled spider" with various excuses through the years for overindulgence and/or camp got instead a portrait of gathering psychosis that was considerably more biting ...

In the realm of Shakespearean tragedy, “Richard III” is a darkly captivating tale of manipulation, power and ambition. The titular character — a cunning, charismatic and malevolent figure, at least as ...

Carlyle Brown’s THE AFRICAN COMPANY PRESENTS RICHARD III draws its power from an extraordinary yet often overlooked chapter in American theater history. In 1821, amid the hostile racial climate of ...

Richard III is one of those historical figures that everybody seems to know the name of. Thanks in large part to his ...