Riz Ahmed electrifies Shakespeare in Aneil Karia's bold South Asian Hamlet reimagining that’s striking, flawed, but worth your time.

The first days of TIFF were jam-packed with Oscar hopefuls and genre thrillers: Rian Johnson's "Wake Up Dead Man," Chloé Zhao's "Hamnet" and Potsy Ponciroli's "Motor City." ...

Gertrude, watching Hamlet duel, says, “He’s fat and scant o’ breath.” Directors often cut this line, for obvious reasons; commentators explain that Hamlet is sweating (“fat”) from the unaccustomed ...

Mr. McCarter adapted and directed a new audio version of “Hamlet.” “It is we who are Hamlet,” wrote the essayist and critic William Hazlitt. Though that observation is more than 200 years old, the ...

Madness, revenge and the supernatural: Hamlet remains one of the most well-known of all Shakespeare plays for good reason. This powerful tale of vengeance and insanity still retains the power to ...

There aren't a lot of places where Shakespeare has never been performed, but the riotous (in every possible sense of the word) new film Grand Theft Hamlet finds one. The action is to borrow a phrase ...

The movie consists solely of a saber fight. Bernhardt plays a cross-gender Hamlet, and Pierre Magnier is her fellow duelist, Laertes. A few bystanders, in Rennaissance dress, stand off to the right of ...

A reworking of Shakespeare "Hamlet" called "Fat Ham” recently won the Pulitzer Prize in drama. Jeffrey Brown has the story from New York for our arts and culture series, "CANVAS." As Shakespeare wrote ...

Westfield High School recently performed "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," a dark comedy by Tom Stoppard based on Shakespeare's "Hamlet" that probes the depths of man's universal apprehension ...

The Toronto International Film Festival is hailing its 50th anniversary and I've never seen the place more patriotic. On my first morning, I looked up at a coffee shop menu and saw a sticker of a ...