Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Actor Sir Ian McKellen has revealed he has taken on the role of Hamlet three times in his career as he discussed how unexpected it ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company returns to the Theatre Royal with a national tour of Hamlet. My all-time favourite play that I ...

More recently, the Shakespearean scholar Stephen Greenblatt gave it publicity in a 2004 essay whose title makes the causal ...

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 ...

Jared Harris (Chernobyl, The Crown, Mad Men) is going full circle and returning to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first time in 34 years to play Claudius, the treacherous uncle in Hamlet. It is ...

Next week the Royal Shakespeare Company brings its acclaimed production of Hamlet to Blackpool’s Grand Theatre. Ahead of the ...

2010 BroadwayWorld Awards Best Leading Actor in a Play Jude Law 2010 BroadwayWorld Awards Best Revival of a Play Hamlet 2010 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Director of a Play Michael Grandage 2009 ...

The thing about ‘Hamlet’ adaptations that I see is that if you dump some things, you lose some important characters, ...

A king's ghost puts his son on a bloody quest against the brother who killed him to take the throne and queen. If the prince were a hulking mass of brawn and rage, it would make for a pretty decent ...

During the play-within-the-play, when Gertrude and Claudius watch as the murder of Hamlet’s father is effectively re-enacted onstage, you are right next to them in the audience — watching Claudius ...

On the caliber of the all-Equity actors in Ensemble Theatre Company’s (ETC) production of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” at the New Vic Theatre, my companion noted, “I knew how it was going to end, but still ...