The days when Richard II and its lyrically self-defeating central character could be allowed to speak only about themselves, however, are gone. The topical approach to the play is a more obvious ...

By the time Shakespeare’s Richard II returned regularly to the stage in the 19th century, the divine right of kings was no ...

who plays Henry Bolingbroke (he also plays the same Henry— later Henry IV— in the next play in the series), counters all of Richard’s negative qualities with positive ones. Where Richard II ...

OK, that’s the wrong play since it’s a line from “Macbeth,” but it best sums up Jonathan Bailey’s performance in the new London production of “Richard II”: The actor cranks up ...

caustic and powerful play is currently in rehearsals with performances set to begin 10 February 2025 at the Bridge Theatre playing for 13 weeks only, until 10 May 2025. Richard II is ...

Richard II will play the Bridge Theatre from 10 February until 10 May 2025. Richard II comes hot on the heels of London Theatre Company’s critically acclaimed immersive production of ...

Richard II is charismatic, eloquent and loved by his ... Shakespeare’s subtle, ambiguous and beautiful play finds feudal England on the cusp of modernity, as a divinely sanctioned monarch ...

Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey will play Richard II in a new production of the Shakespeare play directed by Nicholas Hytner at the Bridge Theatre in London. It will reunite the 36-year-old actor ...

And what do you do when that bad king is (allegedly) appointed by God? Shakespeare’s Richard II is a play that asks us, among other things, what it means to have power, what it means to take pow ...

“Richard II” is about King Richard II’s power struggle ... Director Katie Willmorth pitched the play for the fall 2024 season, anticipating the presidential election season and the many ...

“Richard II has a delicacy and interiority that isn’t going to respond to that kind of treatment,” Hytner told The Guardian of plans for the production. He said the play’s central question ...