This will not be your father’s “Hamlet” — or even your dead-king father’s “Hamlet” — when writer-director Robert O’Hara’s reinterpretation of the Shakespeare perennial opens at the Mark Taper Forum ...

Ball talked a lot about this freshened-up “Hamlet,” and a little about the soon-to-be refreshed “The Pitt,” with Variety while rehearsals for the Taper production were underway. How did you get ...

Jared Harris (Chernobyl, The Crown, Mad Men) is going full circle and returning to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first time in 34 years to play Claudius, the treacherous uncle in Hamlet. It is ...

It's good to be the king - make that the prince. One of Shakespeare's most-adapted plays, there have been over 50 film versions made of Hamlet - from classics like Laurence Olivier's 1948 version, ...

Three local productions put the Bard’s most famous tragedy in bold new light — from an intimate 55-minute staging to a Southern cookout to a comedy about an actor who’d rather not. Something’s rotten ...

Normally, Hamlet doesn’t show up until 15 minutes into the play, after you’ve heard from Marcellus and Bernardo and they’re on the watch and they see a ghost, and then you have scenes between Laertes ...