Richard III (play) The earliest certain performance occurred on 1633, when Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria watched it on the Queen's birthday. Colley Cibber produced the most successful of the Restoration adaptations of Shakespeare with his version of "Richard III", at Drury Lane starting in 1700. Cibber himself played the role till 1739, and his version was on stage for the next century and a half. It contained the lines "Off with his head; so much for Buckingham" – possibly the most famous Shakespearean line that Shakespeare did not write – and "Richard's himself again!". The original Shakespearean version returned in a
Off the Rails (play) production directed by Bill Rauch is slated to open at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and run from July 27 – October 28, 2017. Off the Rails (play) Off the Rails is a stage adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" by Randy Reinholz, a Choctaw Native American playwright. The play was written in 2015, and inspired by Reinholz's wife and co-founder of the Native Voices theatre company at the Autry Museum of the American West, Jean Bruce Scott. Although "Off the Rails" follows the plot of "Measure for Measure", infamous for being one of Shakespeare's problem plays, the power struggles