In "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," two bewildered minor characters in “Hamlet” become central figures. Gallery Players is taking a fresh look at Tom Stoppard’s darkly comic 1967 play with a ...

When you think about it, Gertrude and Claudius — the “villains” of Hamlet — really don’t talk to each other much in Shakespeare’s masterpiece. “Gertrude and Claudius have very few lines together,” ...

A new classical theater troupe is taking a fresh look at “Hamlet.” Exit Left Productions will present a fast-paced, memory-play version of Shakespeare’s great drama, which will open on Friday at ...

The cast of Hamlet (Ato Blankson-Wood, Solea Pfieffer, and Nick Rehberger) discuss what it means to bring Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” into the modern day. Solea Pfeiffer performs as Ophelia in The Public ...

Got a heads up this morning from The Alphabet Killer/The Attic producer Russ Terlecki (interview) about a new project he’s behind called Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead, a horror/comedy with ...

Eddie Izzard is set to play Hamlet in New York. Also Ophelia. And Claudius. And Gertrude and Laertes and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and… The British comedian-actor-writer-activist will play 23 ...

What happens when you take a Shakespearean classic and add a requirement that there are an equal number of men and women in the cast? In Kelli Fox's case, the play Hamlet ended up going through a ...

The music swells. Underneath a single light, a clown is thrown into sharp relief. He begins to recite a sweetly comical, deeply incisive critique of progress – society’s one-dimensional idea of what ...