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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The banishment of beloved nobleman Henry Bolingbroke sets into motion a series of ...

“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 ...

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, ...

March 28 (UPI) --Respect Your Cat Day, celebrated annually on March 28, is a day of showing regard for one's feline companions, and the holiday might have had its origins in a 1384 edict from ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The inventive comic actor delivers a commanding performance in Shakespeare’s portrait of feckless leadership in a sleek Off Broadway ...

Legendary for his cruelty, disloyalty, and tendency to stuff his own pockets, England's most hated monarch usurped his way to power, betraying his own family in the process. THE PLANTAGENETSKing Henry ...

This joint production of Nashville Shakespeare Festival and Lipscomb University offers a fairly rare mounting of the Bard’s history play based on the life of King Richard II of England, who ruled 1377 ...