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.

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

One of Shakespeare’s most classic works, “Hamlet” has been performed through the centuries and with notable figures playing ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

An innovative, immersive take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, shot entirely inside the world of Grand Theft Auto, Pinny Grylls and ...

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