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 ...

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 ...

With “Richard III,” a villainous rise to power feels prescient and profoundly entertaining. A Noise Within in Pasadena is presenting an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “Richard III” through March ...

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The Public Theater celebrated opening night of Free Shakespeare in the Park production of RICHARD III at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park. The shows marks Robert O'Hara's Free Shakespeare in the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. William Shakespeare’s “Richard III” is a brutal play — brutal to watch and just as brutal to stage. An ...

There is something seriously wrong with Richard III. Not only the royal rogue — a murderous psychopath who kills for power with the glee of playing a round of mini-golf — but the new Shakespeare in ...

As he dispatches friend and foe to untimely deaths, Richard III is arguably Shakespeare’s most venomous villain—not for nothing is he compared to a spider and a toad. And yet there is something heroic ...

“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 ...