For four decades Donna Northcott has been making Shakespeare’s works accessible to students and local audiences as the Artistic Director of St. Louis Shakespeare. According to their website, Northcott ...

A lost play known as the “Ur-Hamlet” may have existed before Shakespeare’s famous version. Debate continues over whether Thomas Kyd—or Shakespeare himself—wrote this earlier play. The mystery of the ...

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 ...

The best word I can think of to describe Hamlet at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival is "standard." There is a standard-issue Hamlet (played by Grant Chapman) feigning madness in the castle. The actors ...

If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. After Hamnet dies, his twin sister Judith asks, “Will he never come ...

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 ...

The actor reteams with Aneil Karia, the director of his Oscar-winning short 'The Long Goodbye,' in a listless update of the classic play. Transposed to modern-day London, where Hamlet belongs to a ...