It's just a game: Hiran Abeysekera in 'Hamlet' When the lights come up, we’re transported into an enormous room, a banqueting hall of sorts, with a tapestry stretched across the back wall, candled ...

Set in London's South Asian community, the Telluride-premiering film relies (mostly) on the Bard's language. By Caryn James This latest version of Hamlet begins with a death ritual. Riz Ahmed, as the ...

The court of Elsinore becomes a ship of state – or a ship of fools – in Rupert Goold’s production Thematic merchandise is common at Shakespeare productions: Veronese pizzas before Romeo and Juliet, ...

We approach this Hamlet obliquely. We enter the Young Vic through the back door and are led through a maze of grey corridors. We are clearly in a psychiatric institution complete with treatment rooms, ...

A muscular adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tale of the doomed Prince of Denmark, Aneil Karia’s contemporary take on Hamlet is propelled by Riz Ahmed’s arresting central performance. Playing the ...