The Mercury News
African-American Shakes Hits Stage with Revamped ‘Richard II’
By Sam Hurwitt | April 13, 2022
A paranoid, selfish and unreliable monarch is overthrown. Sound familiar?
There’s something about William Shakespeare’s “Richard II” that resonated with African-American Shakespeare Company artistic director L. Peter Callender more than ever in recent years.
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