For those who missed last week’s column, I’m playing the Ghost in a local, independent production of “Hamlet” the last weekend of August and the first weekend of September. I’m not making any money ...

Grand Theft Hamlet Gives New Meaning to "All the World's a Stage" What begins as a silly, surreal, and farcical telling of a bunch of unemployed London actors' attempts to put on a production of ...

First impressions: There have been all sorts of Hamlets over the years but none I venture to say are quite so funny as the one by Paul Giamatti, who can draw big laughs with just a sly and sardonic ...

The ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Ex Machina’ star is a wild and arresting Hamlet in an electrifying production at New York’s Public Theater, directed by Sam Gold. Senior Editor and Writer Unlisted in the credits ...

Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera ( Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous ...

Tom Hewitt and Elizabeth Ashley in the Bucks County Playhouse production of "I Hate Hamlet." (Joan Marcus) To be funny or not to be funny, that is the question for “I Hate Hamlet,” now at Bucks County ...

To be, or not to be, that is the question surrounding the theater department at Tucson’s West Mesa High School. ’Tis it nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous administrators wanting to ...

Shakespeare's longest play runs for a little more than four hours, it is incredibly intense and not funny at all. The clowns of The Company Theatre take this notion you have of Hamlet and turn it ...

In its final 10 minutes, Hamlet 2 is little more than chaos, noise and nonsense, and those are 10 perfectly enjoyable minutes. It's hard to knock any sequence that climaxes with a musical number ...

Dead Poets Society, Dangerous Minds, Mr. Holland’s Opus, all “great” movies about “great” teachers inspiring their students to achieve great things — all movies referenced lovingly by Steve Coogan’s ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Andrew Scott’s portrayal of Moriarty in Sherlock received almost universal acclaim, but I was one of the ...

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