See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Shakespeare had the good fortune to write Hamletbefore anyone could ...

Theatre Coup d’Etat‘s production of Hamlet has a lot of strengths going for it, but the chief one among them is that they trust Shakespeare’s script to do most of the heavy lifting. Even though the ...

Israel's Cameri Theatre will perform "Hamlet" at the Cleveland Play House this week. In Hebrew. But it won't be a stodgy, Old Testament-style rendering, said Omri Nitzan, artistic director of the Tel ...

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 ...

Today, Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play that haunts itself. Its saturation into cultural consciousness means that watching a performance is inevitably a process of past ghosts and past echoes framing ...

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 ...

So said my friend at one of the two intermissions for the Jungle Theater’s current production of Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, and I have to agree. Of the things that work in Hamlet, Kennedy as Prince ...

The play’s the thing in “Hamlet” and it is in “Hamlet 2,” as well. It’s just about the only thing that makes this intentionally cringe-inducing theatrical parody worth watching. Sure, Steve Coogan has ...