Richard II

...week Fiona Shaw, one of Britain's leading actresses - who has in her time played everything from the tragic heroine Medea to Shakespeare's Richard II - volunteered in the cause of science to spend an hour having her brain scanned while...

In this article: Fiona Shaw, T S Eliot, Medea, University College London, Wellcome, and William Shakespeare

...that a William Hastings had been the bastard son of Queen Elizabeth, because otherwise he'd have been punished for writing the subversive Richard II and Macbeth. And if he was, then the most likely father was Robert Dudley, Earl of...

In this article: William Shakespeare, Robin Williams, Edward de Vere, Mark Rylance, Brunel University, and Mary Sidney

...Ado About Nothing. " Jason D. Rennie directs. Subsequent readings in the series are "King John" (directed by McMurtry, Nov. 30) and "Richard II" (directed by Douglas Lay, Dec. 14). All are free and take place at The Theatre Inc., 899 C St. (at...

In this article: UCSD, Much Ado About Nothing, and William Shakespeare

...Shakespeare by an Australian director in years. And you could forgive Andrews the awful bits, not just because Blanchett was superb as Richard II but because the whole thing was so imaginatively conceived, even when it was perverse. I...

In this article: Neil Armfield, Cate Blanchett, Melbourne, and Melbourne Theatre Company

...and threatens to overcome the stage, only to be cunningly tucked away again as the lights go down. The Rude Mechanicals present "Richard II" Today at 7 p.m., tomorrow at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. $3 for students Wednesday's dress rehearsal of...

In this article: William Shakespeare, Hamlet, and John of Gaunt

...partner Ismail Merchant. In a roundtable discussion, he said his next project probably would be an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Richard II." Among the weekend's other highlights were two Italian dramas: "Alza la testa," a story of family...

In this article: George Clooney, Richard Gere, Rome, James Ivory, Dog, Rome Prize, Hachiko: A Dog's Story, William Shakespeare, and The Challenge

...strangulated whine. It's easy to see why Stuhlbarg has played such high-profile characters on the stage as Shakespeare's Richard II, the Dauphin in Shaw's "Saint Joan,'' and Edmund Tyrone, in the American Repertory Theater's 1996...

In this article: A Serious Man, Coen brothers, Martin McDonagh, Minneapolis, Physics, University of California at Los Angeles, American Repertory Theater, and Burn After Reading

...Shakespeare Theater stage credits include Macbeth, Passion, Hamlet, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, and Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night's Dream. Northlight Theatre credits include Visiting...

In this article: Heroes, Chicago, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Tom Stoppard, Mike Nussbaum, and Hamlet

...have you that the American accent is closer and why is it better?'' Interestingly, when Spacey performed the title role in Richard II at the Old Vic in 2005, he chose to do so with an English accent. Notably, however, he drifted back...

In this article: Trevor Nunn, William Shakespeare, Kevin Spacey, Royal Shakespeare Company, Perdita, A Winter's Tale, Stanley Wells, and National Theatre

...as the defence counsel, a thinly disguised Clarence Darrow? Why, the Old Vic and its artistic director, Kevin Spacey, who had played Richard II there for Nunn. So Nunn e-mailed the actor, to find that he was at a conference in Russia and,...

In this article: Trevor Nunn, Inherit the Wind, Ian McKellen, Kevin Spacey, Clarence Darrow, Populism, Tax, and Love's Labour's Lost