The Summer of Their Lucky Lot William Shakespeare, whose characters ignore signs and portents at their peril, would surely have appreciated the mystical convergences involved in performing his "Richard III" in a parking lot. Bones believed to belong to the real Richard III were exhumed last fall from beneath a municipal parking lot in Leicester, England. Now that discovery is being most happily capitalized upon by the enterprising Drilling Company in its free series Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, which this summer ends with the story of Old Crookback. Presented alfresco amid city tumult and summer swelter, this production will emphasize the historically much-maligned Richard as a political opportunist who would fit in comfortably on the Capitol Hill of today. Hamilton Clancy directs, and the title role will be assumed by Alessandro Colla, who according to the company is roughly the same height as Richard III, at least the height his bones suggest. Cue chilling organ chords, please. And who knows what vehicle might emerge when Richard cries out, "My kingdom for a horse"? Thursday through Aug. 17, municipal parking lot at Ludlow and Broome Streets, Lower East Side; 212-837-9050, shakespeareintheparkinglot.com.