Aneil Karia's version of Hamlet starring Riz Ahmed makes a unique tweak on the classic play that fuses two characters in a ...

It is fairly common to see Shakespearean plays re-set in a different time, sometimes retaining Shakespeare’s language and largely just changing costumes and settings, or sometimes re-writing ...

Director Lyndsey Turner’s Hamlet surprised me a bit at the start with Benedict Cumberbatch, our Hamlet, wrapped in a loose brown sweater, sitting on the ground listening to vinyl. This production’s ...

Wear black and talk softly, withdraw from the crowd and train your mind on higher things—it’s strange how much of the etiquette of grief is also a shortcut to cultivating an aura of sexy mystery.