Danai Gurira, the actress most widely known for her roles in Marvel’s Avengers franchise and AMC’s The Walking Dead, will play one of the stage’s great villains this summer when she takes the title ...

Even if you have never seen a production of William Shakespeare‘s “Richard III” you know and probably adore some version of him. The Bard’s villain of villains echoes throughout entertainment, ...

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Complete casting has been revealed for the previously announced Shakespeare in the Park production of Richard III, directed by Slave Play Tony nominee Robert O’Hara and starring Danai Gurira in the ...

Robert O’Hara, the Tony Award-nominated director and acclaimed playwright, sat beneath a tree near the side of the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. On the opening night of “Richard III,” a searing ...

LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - When actor Adjoa Andoh read William Shakespeare's "Richard III" as a child, she was struck by how he was treated. "I'm sort of 9 or 10 ... I was outraged in the sort of ...

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 ...

In her first play, historical novelist Philippa Gregory "seeks to offer a nuanced portrait of the last Plantagenet king", in contrast to Shakespeare's "depiction of a deformed outsider who settles on ...

Richard III tells the story of a “morally bankrupt schemer, bereft of empathy and surrounded by sycophantic hypocrites”, who reaches the summit of power but is “fatally exposed by his own narcissism ...