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Shakespeare’s Richard II – The Michael Urie Show

William Shakespeare’s Richard II is not the easiest play to stage. You have an indecisive pleasure-prone king and a plot that is not as gripping as the Bard’s other tragedies. Still, this play is meant to be a tragedy, which is why Red Bull Theater’s intriguing version, adapted and directed

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Shakespeare’s Richard II – The Michael Urie Show

William Shakespeare’s Richard II is not the easiest play to stage. You have an indecisive pleasure-prone king and a plot that is not as gripping as the Bard’s other tragedies. Still, this play is meant to be a tragedy, which is why Red Bull Theater’s intriguing version, adapted and directed by Craig Baldwin and set in the 1980s, works well only partially, that is when King Richard is in power, enjoying his life. But as

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