Hamlet is typically seen as the epitome of a serious play: visualise it on stage and you’re probably imagining a sober black-clad prince, clutching a skull and brooding miserably on his own mortality ...

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 ...

Around 1905 or 1906, Sigmund Freud wrote an essay, unpublished in his lifetime, called “Psychopathic Characters on the Stage.”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

The actor reteams with Aneil Karia, the director of his Oscar-winning short 'The Long Goodbye,' in a listless update of the classic play. Transposed to modern-day London, where Hamlet belongs to a ...