One of the most challenging leading roles in Shakespeare, Richard II must appear both insipid and compelling, a man who ...

A nation in need, an unsuitable king, banishments, murders, attempted coups. Richard II has it all and so does Jonathan ...

The actor, on a hot streak after “Wicked,” takes on his biggest stage role to date. In London, he plays Shakespeare’s ...

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 ...

Of all Shakespeare’s heroes, Richard II is the one who most clearly presents himself as an actor. He’s always trying on roles like clothes, wearing the mantle of kingship, seeing how it looks and then ...