Shakespeare had the good fortune to write Hamletbefore anyone could tell him how to fix it. Were he working today, the playwriting system—in this country, at least—would exhaust itself trying to ...

You can see this play out repeatedly across the country. With A Woman or Not To Be, I wanted to question certain celebrated ...

Israel's Cameri Theatre will perform "Hamlet" at the Cleveland Play House this week. In Hebrew. But it won't be a stodgy, Old Testament-style rendering, said Omri Nitzan, artistic director of the Tel ...

Simon Russell Beale: IT is the most hospitable part there is. I've just been reading Auden's essay on it, and he's brilliant in all sorts of ways, but he's obviously not a practitioner. One of the ...

Theatre Coup d’Etat‘s production of Hamlet has a lot of strengths going for it, but the chief one among them is that they trust Shakespeare’s script to do most of the heavy lifting. Even though the ...

It has been announced that Tom Hiddleston will play the title role of Hamlet in a production of Shakespeare's tragedy. Tickets for the play, which is being directed by Kenneth Branagh and will run for ...

Behind the Iron Curtain, Shakespeare's plays were a way to send secret messages about Soviet society to theatre audiences. Now a Lithuanian staging of Hamlet - designed to make Stalin, who hated the ...

Last week, HAMLET, a new 6-episode audio adaptation of the classic play by William Shakespeare, celebrated its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival. At this special one-night-only event, hosted by ...