A new William Shakespeare movie from an Oscar-winning director reveals its first image featuring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley in lead roles.

Shakespeare's historical plays about the Plantagenet kings are not always the most approachable works, but when you have a master like Sir Laurence Olivier playing the last of them in Richard III ...

News about Laurence Olivier. Commentary and archival information about Laurence Olivier from The New York Times.

LONDON – Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died ...