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 ...

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 ...

In Shakespeare in the Park‘s new production of “Richard III,” Danai Gurira plays the title role less as a politician than as a performer. Gurira’s Richard is a mastermind of chaos at the court, who ...

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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 ...

Shakespeare's plays continue to speak deeply to succeeding generations because we bring our own concerns and social contexts to bear in conversation with the texts. Sometimes that comes in the form of ...