THE BASICS: RICHARD III, by Shakespeare, directed by Greg Stuhr, starring Chris Avery, in a cast of 26, through 8/17, Tuesdays through Sundays (no Mondays) at 7:00 pm presented by Shakespeare in ...

Yvonne Morley-Chisholm was on an annual retreat in England in 2014 when she had something of a eureka moment. "We were meeting in the city of Leicester, and I thought, 'Leicester, Leicester — oh, didn ...

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 ...

It is one of history's most intriguing "murders" — the mysterious disappearance over five centuries ago of two young princes from the Tower of London. Nearly 200 years after they disappeared, two ...

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

Charismatic, cunning and utterly ruthless, King Richard is the very embodiment of lethal ambition. His succession plan will slay you. Charismatic, cunning and utterly ruthless, Richard, Duke of ...

Yvonne Morley-Chisholm was on an annual retreat with other professionals when she had sort of a eureka moment. YVONNE MORLEY-CHISHOLM: We were meeting in the city of Leicester. And I thought Leicester ...

At this point, it feels like the works of William Shakespeare can be adapted in just about any way you can conceive of his words. A storyteller doesn't have to be tied down to his specific wording or ...

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 ...

Richard III has long stood accused of murdering his nephews in 1483, but some experts doubt it. A new piece of evidence has them as divided as ever. The uncrowned King Edward V and his younger brother ...

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, ...

He said that due to the ill health of Philippa Langley, whose recollection of events around the finding of King Richard III’s remains was the basis for the film, her evidence could not be presented to ...