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 ...

New Haven’s Elm Shakespeare Company is the grandest and most popular of all the state’s outdoor Shakespeare companies, drawing tens of thousands of people to its shows each year and staging the plays ...

Forty years before the abolition of slavery, William Henry Brown, a free Black American, organizes a production of ...

Tony Award nominee. Paralympic runner. As if Katy Sullivan’s bio weren’t impressive enough, she’s about to add another accomplishment when she becomes the first woman with a disability to play the ...

Silicon Valley Shakespeare is staging adaptations of a famous play and a well-known novel at Sanborn Park in Saratoga through the end of August. The first is an adaptation of “Richard III” by William ...

“I am determined to prove a villain,” Richard III famously tells us at the very top of the Shakespearean drama that bears his name, justifying his choice by himself being “rudely stamped,” “not shaped ...

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 ...