The court of Elsinore becomes a ship of state – or a ship of fools – in Rupert Goold’s production Thematic merchandise is common at Shakespeare productions: Veronese pizzas before Romeo and Juliet, ...

Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. Since it was penned more than four hundred years ago, Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” has been in ...

But hold up here! Of course it’s not. After how many centuries of “to be-ing or not to be-ing” now have people been remarking on the experiments and the risks of productions that are “not your ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's just a game: Hiran Abeysekera in 'Hamlet' When the lights come up, we’re transported into an enormous room, a banqueting hall of sorts, with a tapestry stretched across the back wall, candled ...

Telluride: Aneil Karia does an effective job of setting the classic text among South Asian characters in London, but Ahmed's fittingly excessive performance is the star of the show. Whenever a new ...

A muscular adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tale of the doomed Prince of Denmark, Aneil Karia’s contemporary take on Hamlet is propelled by Riz Ahmed’s arresting central performance. Playing the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Thomas Ostermeier’s production of “Hamlet,” presented as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave festival, unleashes more madness than what ...