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Richard II

Closing: December 24, 2011

Richard II - 2011 Off-Broadway History , Info & More

Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II
131 West 55th Street New York, NY 10036

If you tear down a world, what do you build?

If the thing you were born to be is ripped away, what do you become?

Corruption, ambition, and greed stalk the nation—and threaten to destroy its future. In Richard II, Shakespeare chronicles the shattering fall of one king and the meteoric rise of another in a raw and powerful tale of a country—and a soul—in chaos.


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Richard II History

Other Productions of Richard II

1937   Broadway
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1940   Broadway
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1951   Broadway
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1956   Broadway
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1978   Off-Broadway
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1982   Off-Broadway
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1987   Off-Broadway
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1998   Off-Broadway
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2006   Off-Broadway
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2011   Off-Broadway Pearl Theatre Company Production
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2011   West End Donmar Warehouse Production
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2021   Off-Broadway Shakespeare in the Park Production
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