From the moment Tim Riggs walks on stage wearing shades and a black hoodie, we know we're going to be in for a wild ride in the Ephrata Performing Art Center's production of "Hamlet." A wild and ...

Grand Theft Hamlet is now playing in theaters. This review is based on a screening at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival. Spoiler alert: I cried at the end of Grand Theft Hamlet. Yeah, the documentary about ...

Around 1905 or 1906, Sigmund Freud wrote an essay, unpublished in his lifetime, called “Psychopathic Characters on the Stage.” The essay addressed the question of what we, as spectators, get out of ...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that a new version of “Hamlet” premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on Saturday, because this particular Shakespeare tragedy seems to be in the air these days. Most ...

Set in London's South Asian community, the Telluride-premiering film relies (mostly) on the Bard's language. By Caryn James This latest version of Hamlet begins with a death ritual. Riz Ahmed, as the ...

Thought you knew “Hamlet”? Think again. Benedict Cumberbatch’s prince might have triggered a media frenzy, but make no mistake, this is director Lyndsey Turner’s production — and it’s a radical ...

How to be Hamlet? That was the question facing Robert Icke, the theatre director, and Alex Lawther, the actor, when they met recently in London to rehearse the play from which, it has been quipped, ...

When Hamlet walks across the stage at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, he wears a purple brocade jacket and pants - with a knit beanie and a casual messenger bag. It's an appropriate look for a ...