Richard II

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The Pearl Theatre Company's production of Richard II, now at City Center Stage II, is so well acted -- with credit equally due to director J. R. Sullivan -- that even as it unfolds with enviable lucidity, it promises hope that the troupe may someday similarly illuminate other fabled Shakespearean plays.

Rarely included among the Bard's masterworks, the history play is nevertheless mighty appealing for several reasons. The first is its portrait of the titular late 14th-century's monarch (Sean McNall), whose foolishly arrogant sense of divine right causes him to come to realize only slowly his standing as no more nor less than a mere mortal.

All the while, he speaks some of the most st[...]