Nathan Darrow as Hamlet and Hillary Clemens as Ophelia in the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival's 2017 production of 'Hamlet.' Presumably, everyone knows that "To be, or not to be" is a phrase ...

FOLLOWING the fashion in movies and books, Sir Laurence Olivier has acted and directed a Hamlet with a simplified Freudian interpretation. The mad Ophelia makes caressing motions over a phallic ...

Never shying away from a challenge, the Exodus Ensemble’s latest offering tackles what is regularly considered to be one of the cornerstones of the western canon and of high school senior English ...

Polonius, Lord Chamberlain to the bad king in Hamlet, advises his son, Laertes, headed for Paris, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be. For loan oft loses both itself and friend." Well, I've loaned ...

Here's the thing about "Hamlet." No matter what interpretation enterprising companies impose on it, the play seems to wrap itself around the outlandishness and shine through in a new and usually ...

To paraphrase the play itself, when Hamlet s come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. That’s certainly the case ...

The play Shakespeare called "Hamlet" has been reimagined as a new film called "Ophelia." Critic Bob Mondello says its leading lady sees the world a little differently than the sweet prince did. BOB ...