For those who struggle to understand and even shy away from the genius that is William Shakespeare, fear not—The University ...

The Met imported Neil Armfield’s unsparing production from England’s Glyndebourne Festival where the Australian composer’s second opera premiered in 2017. Throughout their adaptation, Dean and Jocelyn ...

Around 1905 or 1906, Sigmund Freud wrote an essay, unpublished in his lifetime, called “Psychopathic Characters on the Stage.” The essay addressed the question of what we, as spectators, get out of ...

How to be Hamlet? That was the question facing Robert Icke, the theatre director, and Alex Lawther, the actor, when they met recently in London to rehearse the play from which, it has been quipped, ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. It's a solo show but it’s still Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”. If you’re expecting a ...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that a new version of “Hamlet” premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on Saturday, because this particular Shakespeare tragedy seems to be in the air these days. Most ...

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 ...