Learn more about Nicholas Hytner’s hit production starring Jonathan Bailey and plan your Richard II play London trip The King believes he has a divine right to rule, but is he really up to the task?

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Why stage Richard II in 2025? Perhaps, post-Brexit, because it kicks off Shakespeare’s eight-play retelling of the Wars of the Roses, a conflict which saw England so riven with internal division that ...

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 ...

Hytner needs to thank the company, his composer, and sound designer: they make the play. Royce Pierreson and Jonathan Bailey in Richard II Bailey is, obviously, the main attraction. His Richard ...

Though Shakespeare’s play is unsparing in its portrayal of ... An earlier version of this article misidentified the costume designer for “Richard II.” It is Bob Crowley, not Eleanor Dolan.

“He’s a masterful, eighth-degree black belt actor.” Bailey is starring in Richard II through May 10 at the Bridge Theatre.

Dan Jones What most people know of medieval English King Henry V, if most people know anything at all about him, is ...

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 several gears the moment ...