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 ...

Wesley Whitson and Christy Watkins in Bedlam's Hamlet at 4th Wall Theatre Co. Credit: Photo by Gabriella Nissen The world’s most famous play – some might say greatest play – receives a superlative ...