The girl-power premise behind Lauren Gunderson’s A Room in the Castle has good stuff, but is unevenly executed.

While I was in middle school and during my high school years, I dedicated one of my classroom periods each semester to being ...

The Reduced Shakespeare Company built their reputation on going big. Since their founding in 1982, the company has tackled the complete works of William Shakespeare, the histories of America, comedy, ...

This Hamlet is not containable — he’s deeply ... as is Nia Towle’s achingly lost Ophelia. Elliot Levey’s subtly pitched Polonius is a man out of his depth — with his children, with ...

"It’s amazing to see what a teenager’s mind can do with Shakespeare’s stories," said CHS Shakespeare Festival advisor & ...

The prolific San Francisco-based playwright Lauren M. Gunderson is returning to D.C. this month for the premiere of her new ...

The Italian opera star performs every role in a unique production composed of fragments of 16th-century Hamlet operas and ...

SINGAPORE – When acclaimed Chinese actors Hu Jun and Lu Fang were last in Singapore in 2019, they played tragic lovers Hamlet and Ophelia. In 2025, they return again, as lovers of a different sort in ...

Does your life lack "main character energy?" Do you sometimes feel like an extra in an absurdist play? Then, maybe you can relate to William Shakespeare's Hamlet, a prince driven to prolonged inaction ...

She quickly adds, “Without losing the tragedy.” Continuing this line of thought she offers her thoughts on Ophelia, Hamlet’s love interest who drowns herself when rejected by him.

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has unveiled the complete cast and creative team for its highly anticipated “Hamlet Hail to the Thief,” with Samuel Blenkin, fresh from Noah Hawley’s upcoming ...