It’s the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, and Shotgun Players has a surprise. Berkeley’s bold indie theater company is playing roulette with his “Hamlet” in a mind-bending new production that ...

SALISBURY — William Shakespeare is one of the greatest writers in the English language. His plays have become enduring classics that are still taught in high schools and performed in theaters all over ...

A team from NYU’s MAGNET is combining virtual reality, motion capture and livestreaming to put a new twist on theater. Could this be the future of performance? Christmas Sweater World, we hardly knew ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Artistic Director Joseph Haj said, “Each year, we welcome more than 30,000 ...

Andrew Scott has recently confessed he halted his Hamlet performance after an audience member opened their laptop. During an appearance on Happy Sad Confused podcast, the Irish actor, who played in ...

LONDON – To plead or not to plead? After a “mortifying” moment during a preview performance of “Hamlet,” Benedict Cumberbatch decided it was time for a direct appeal. He’d been onstage, delivering the ...

The DM Performance Works Factory Theatre, 15 School St., Nuremberg, will present William Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday ...

It's Christmas time, and here's a play featuring a ghostly apparition that reveals to the protagonist some significant truths about his life. No, this isn't another version of Dickens' "A Christmas ...

Performance Works Factory Theatre in Nuremberg announced the opening on Friday night of a three-day run of “I Hate Hamlet,” a comedy by Paul Rudnick. Andrew Rally seems to have it all: celebrity ...

A Shakespeare’s Globe performance of Hamlet at the “Jungle” Camp in Calais last week was cut short because “there were a lot of knives around”, organisers have revealed. Actors performed the play on a ...

As audiences got their first glimpse of Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet on his preview night at the Barbican, critics broke with convention to publish early reviews – and not all of them were positive.