See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Shakespeare had the good fortune to write Hamletbefore anyone could ...

Theatre Coup d’Etat‘s production of Hamlet has a lot of strengths going for it, but the chief one among them is that they trust Shakespeare’s script to do most of the heavy lifting. Even though the ...

Today, Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play that haunts itself. Its saturation into cultural consciousness means that watching a performance is inevitably a process of past ghosts and past echoes framing ...

Explore how Down syndrome actors use Hamlet to challenge neurotypical assumptions about theatre and acting, creating a ...

A lost play known as the “Ur-Hamlet” may have existed before Shakespeare’s famous version. Debate continues over whether Thomas Kyd—or Shakespeare himself—wrote this earlier play. The mystery of the ...

The play’s the thing in “Hamlet” and it is in “Hamlet 2,” as well. It’s just about the only thing that makes this intentionally cringe-inducing theatrical parody worth watching. Sure, Steve Coogan has ...