Hamnet Shakespeare was the only son of William Shakespeare, and almost everything known about him comes from sparse parish records, fueling centuries of speculation about his short life and his ...

Anisa Tejpar, associate producer of Côté Danse, said this non-verbal version of the play can oftentimes help audiences better understand the story without the barrier of language. “What this show does ...

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 ...

Hiran Abeysekera brings humour to the tragedy and Francesca Mills steals the show as Ophelia but this staging pulls its emotional punches Last week, Indhu Rubasingham launched her inaugural programme ...

Hamlet is typically seen as the epitome of a serious play: visualise it on stage and you’re probably imagining a sober black-clad prince, clutching a skull and brooding miserably on his own mortality ...

A star is born in this new production of Hamlet, the seventh in the National Theatre’s history. It isn’t the Prince, played by Hiran Abeysekera, but Francesca Mills’s Ophelia who brings this ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Now here he is at the National Theatre in a production, directed by Robert Hastie (new deputy artistic director ...

Written by Tayyebi and Yeganeh Mohammadi, the play has been renamed “Hamlet the Killer,” Mehr reported on Wednesday. The main theme of this edition of the festival, which will run from October 16 to ...

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 ...

Suzy Eddie Izzard has confirmed that she will play both men and women in the solo production of Hamlet in which she will take on 23 roles in one show. The comedian, 63 - who uses she/her pronouns and ...

The actor reteams with Aneil Karia, the director of his Oscar-winning short 'The Long Goodbye,' in a listless update of the classic play. Transposed to modern-day London, where Hamlet belongs to a ...