A production at the Shakespeare’s Globe theater faced criticism because a nondisabled actor plays the scheming king. But disputes like these miss the point, our critic writes. By Houman Barekat ...

LONDON (AP) — It was a true story stranger than fiction: The body of England’s King Richard III, missing for centuries, was discovered under a parking lot after a search spearheaded by amateur sleuths ...

A digital avatar featuring the head and voice of King Richard III has gone on display at York Theatre Royal in northern England. Richard was king of England from 1483 ...

Yvonne Morley-Chisholm was on an annual retreat in England in 2014 when she had something of a eureka moment. "We were meeting in the city of Leicester, and I thought, 'Leicester, Leicester — oh, didn ...

What does it mean to see the "rudely stamped... deformed, unfinished" body of Richard III on stage? Even Shakespeare's contemporaries didn't quite know how to answer this question. The prevailing view ...

Philippa Langley devoted years to the search for Richard III’s remains. Now, she’s trying to crack a 15th-century cold case: Did he really assassinate his nephews? By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from ...