Director Ron OJ Parson's staging of Athol Fugard's "Blood Knot" caused a stir earlier this summer at Wisconsin's American Players Theatre due to the casting of a white actor in the role of a…
The stage is quite empty, save for a makeshift throne in a corner and a couple of rows of ordinary looking chairs in the back, where actors not involved with scenes sit. The costumes are con…
That renowned man of the theater Austin Pendleton's concept to adapt and combine portions of William Shakespeare's "Henry VI, Part 3" with Richard III is intriguing and textually successful.…
By Marcina Zaccaria Austin Pendleton successfully combines two Shakespearean plays in Wars of the Roses: Henry VI & Richard III, bringing the best of actor's theater to the…
★★ The history play combination, directed by Austin Pendleton and Peter Bloch, too often fires blanks The post War of the Roses: Henry VI & Richard III: Losing Shakespeare …
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's Richard III is a deft, gripping version of Shakespeare's vision of malevolence, staged with verve and vision.
Street Theatre. "I'll be delivering the longest soliloquy from any Shakespeare play," Mr. de Rogatis explained about the substitution of Richard III's celebrated opening line for a speech fr…
It's time to stop 'cripping up' " it turns disability into a defining feature, disrupts the story and makes the audience become voyeurs of differenceOccasionally, as an actor, you get a job.…
The Tony nominee will star as King Henry VI in a new adaptation that combines text from both Shakespeare plays.
Ma-Yi Theater Company, in association with The Public Theater, present the world premiere play by Mike Lew, now playing through Sunday, July 29, 2018. TEENAGE DICK, which follows Ma-Yi's phe…
Gregg Mozgala stars as an adolescent Richard with cerebral palsy in the high school-set new adaptation.
A new play transposes Shakespeare's tragedy to a modern high school, where a student with cerebral palsy has his eye on the senior-class presidency.
Mike Lew's Teenage Dick is a high school-set tongue-in-cheek tragicomedy that riffs on Richard III. Discontent with being class secretary, and wanting
Shakespeare's King Richard III is standing trial for the murder of heirs, rivals, friends and wives, and you're invited to join the jury for what promises to be a landmark case in UK history.
In a time of Facebook rumour, fake news and false narratives, director Lu Kemp’s Richard III provides a reminder that such lies
Kaite O'Reilly and Sara Beer follow up their 2016 collaboration, Cosy, with an incendiary look at the lack of inclusivity in theatre.
Matt de Rogatis will take on the title role.
Steven Barkhimer's mastery of the role's physicality is the key to his expression of its villainy.
By Kaite O'Reilly. Kaite O'Reilly considers how Richard III has been portrayed on stage, the alignment of atypical embodiment with evil and suffering, and her inspiration with The Llana…
Kaite O'Reilly writes on cripping up, and how her new production offers a witty, feminist, alternative disability perspective on Shakespeare's history play. The post Richard III Redux appear…
Opening night is set for February 10.
Shakespeare's play has been adapted and transported to 1960s London, where the Krays reign supreme and hold the East End in terror " in a nod to these famous twins, Richard himself is split …
This 1960's set production of Shakespeare's chilling play has some good ideas " but sadly it doesn't quite come together in the way it should.