Grand Theft Hamlet is now playing in theaters. This review is based on a screening at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival. Spoiler alert: I cried at the end of Grand Theft Hamlet. Yeah, the documentary about ...

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Between Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley's "Hamnet" and Riz Ahmed's upcoming modern take, it's another big moment for the Shakespeare tragedy.

How to be Hamlet? That was the question facing Robert Icke, the theatre director, and Alex Lawther, the actor, when they met recently in London to rehearse the play from which, it has been quipped, ...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that a new version of “Hamlet” premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on Saturday, because this particular Shakespeare tragedy seems to be in the air these days. Most ...

Telluride: Aneil Karia does an effective job of setting the classic text among South Asian characters in London, but Ahmed's fittingly excessive performance is the star of the show. Whenever a new ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Alex Lawther makes for an especially riveting hero in Robert Icke’s chic if imperfect modern-dress production at the Park Avenue Armory.

Around 1905 or 1906, Sigmund Freud wrote an essay, unpublished in his lifetime, called “Psychopathic Characters on the Stage.”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 ...

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