Hamlet isn’t as mysterious a play as the critics make out, according to Rhoda Koenig Your review of Hamlet at Guildford’s Holy Trinity Church (9 February) says “Shakespeare gives a variety of … ...

Two releases about troubled couples meet a broader cultural moment of questioning what the institution is good for—and what new arrangements might replace it.

Around 1905 or 1906, Sigmund Freud wrote an essay, unpublished in his lifetime, called “Psychopathic Characters on the Stage.” The essay addressed the question of what we, as spectators, get out of ...

Hamlet is in theaters on April 10. From Laurence Olivier to The Lion King; from Branagh to Bollywood and The Bad Sleep Well; few stones have been left un-turned when adapting Hamlet for the big screen ...

The Met imported Neil Armfield’s unsparing production from England’s Glyndebourne Festival where the Australian composer’s second opera premiered in 2017. Throughout their adaptation, Dean and Jocelyn ...

Hamlet (2025) is directed by Aneil Karia. The adaptation features Riz Ahmed (as Hamlet), alongside Morfydd Clark, Sheeba Chaddha, Joe Alwyn amongst many others. It premiered at the Telluride Film ...

Research argues that the story behind Hamlet can be traced to an eighth or ninth-century Irish tale that names a figure resembling Amlothi. Dr Lisa Collinson says her study found Irish references to ...