Robert Hastie, deputy artistic director of the U.K.’s National Theatre, is juggling major productions on both sides of the ...

The question used to be: Can Shakespeare’s plays be made into successful movies? With his film production of Henry V (TIME, April 8, 1946), Sir Laurence Olivier settled that question once & for all.

Read our review of Shakespeare's *Hamlet*, directed by Robert Hastie, now in performances at the National Theatre to 22 ...

FOLLOWING the fashion in movies and books, Sir Laurence Olivier has acted and directed a Hamlet with a simplified Freudian interpretation. The mad Ophelia makes caressing motions over a phallic ...

Hamlet at National Theatre: the Prince has ADHD in uneven production - 3/5 Hiran Abeysekera in Hamlet at the Lyttelton Theatre is a production with plenty of ideas even if it is hit and miss ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on Sept. 30, 1948. This story was written by Kate Cameron.) When Ben Jonson said of his fellow-playwright, William Shakespeare, that he “was not of an age, but ...

Hiran Abeysekera makes a flippant, manic Hamlet in this muddled take on the quintessential tragedy Leaning into every ...

What a comfort to the American theater the British actor used to be! Olivier, Gielgud, Richardson—the very names gave off a ring of quality. Sir Laurence, Sir John, Sir Ralph if one preferred, and one ...

As a youth, the writer Floyd Skloot most admired Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy. “It showed a mind engaged with the fundamental question of existence,” he says in this special issue, which ...

See Melina Matsoukas’s debut feature on HBO. Or watch Laurence Olivier’s 1948 “Hamlet” on TCM. By Gabe Cohn QUEEN & SLIM (2019) 9 p.m. on HBO. In the blink of an eye, a sputtering first date turns ...

Taylor Swift ’s 12th studio album The Life of a Showgirl dropped Oct. 3, and William Shakespeare buffs will relish in the ...