Chris Johnston and Shunte Lofton. Photo by Lindsey Walters. Photo

From: Photo Flash: First Look at RICHARD III At The American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse

Richard III chronicles the cataclysmic end of England's greatest power struggle, the Wars of the Roses. Richard is the play's remarkable, charismatic, and repulsive ringmaster - he takes the audience into his confidence as he plots to kill everyone before him in line for the throne. Being seduced by Richard's shameless treachery is one of theatre-going's most delicious guilty pleasures.