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Brenden Peifer, left, is Tio and Ananias J. Dixon is Juicy in the Cleveland Play House production of "Fat Ham," written by ...

Satire? Tragedy? Romance? As a blockbuster adaptation of The Seagull arrives at the Barbican, Hayley Maitland meets the ...

Satire? Tragedy? Romance? As a blockbuster adaptation of The Seagull arrives at the Barbican, Hayley Maitland meets the ...

INTERVIEW: The ‘Mad Men’ actor speaks to Louis Chilton about his new production of ‘Hamlet’ at the RSC, reinventing himself ...

A new production of Hamlet is arriving at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Directed by Rupert Goold and starring Luke Thallon ...

That’s what Queen Gertrude said as she laid flowers on the grave of Ophelia, Hamlet’s former lover, in William Shakespeare’s play of the same name. It was Shakespeare’s way of ...

Hamlet” (the original) was written, of course, in 1600s vintage English blank verse; much of “Fat Ham” is in Black English ...

Art has always drawn inspiration from experience, be it the physical world perceived by the senses or more abstract aspects, ...

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well” is a famous quote from William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” But do we really know this revered play? Three very different ...

Here’s a toast to Marianne Faithfull, a true rock & roll legend. Nobody was ever better at being an old rock star, except maybe Leonard Cohen. Yet the difference is that Cohen didn’t release his debut ...

Folger Theatre and the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company have announced the world-premiere production of A Room in the Castle, a ...