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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by My Favorite Page Brett Dean, whose adaptation of the classic play is at the Metropolitan Opera, discusses the four notes that embody Hamlet’s dilemma.

Jared Harris (Chernobyl, The Crown, Mad Men) is going full circle and returning to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first time in 34 years to play Claudius, the treacherous uncle in Hamlet. It is ...

Israel's Cameri Theatre will perform "Hamlet" at the Cleveland Play House this week. In Hebrew. But it won't be a stodgy, Old Testament-style rendering, said Omri Nitzan, artistic director of the Tel ...

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 ...