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 ...

Right now, accusations of ill-advised stunt casting are being flung at the West End, but Nicholas Hytner’s take on ...

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?

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

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.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. We first see Jonathan Bailey’s magnetic Richard II picked out by a shaft of white light against a dark ...

It’s a role ripe for star casting: Eddie Redmayne, David Tennant, Ben Whishaw are all recent Richards. Now Jonathan Bailey, hot off the back of Bridgerton and Wicked, has his shot at the part in a new ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richard II is a tough ask of a piece ... echoes of the theme tune to Succession. For what this play boils down to is a struggle to the death between two cousins, Richard and Henry Bullingbrook (Royce ...

"Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it." 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 ...