Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” Marcellus tells Horatio early in William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”. The line is a ...

What a piece of work is a man,” sighs Juicy, the rueful hero of “Fat Ham,” nudging the theater’s imaginary fourth wall as he confides to the audience. The line is Hamlet’s, from the Shakespeare ...

Springtime is here which means another one of William Shakespeare’s plays will make an appearance at a local park in Duncan. Little Theatre will present its annual Shakespeare in the Park with a ...

How do you choreograph “To be or not to be”? That is the question, or at least one of them, for anybody looking to make a movement piece out of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” This past ...

Ophelia Thinks Harder by Jean Betts and Shakespeare is a feminist reading of Hamlet with Ophelia at its centre, performed at ...

She just gave a really good reading. We decided, ‘That’s our Hamlet.’” Other major changes: Horatio is being played by a woman. For the roles of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, one actor is ...

Don John was also played as and by a female. In Hamlet, three other major characters, Rosencranz, Guilderstein and Horatio are also cast without regard to gender. Helmer insists the gender switch ...

The title role in Shakespeare’s enduring tragedy Hamlet is on the bucket list for many actors wishing to challenge their range of emotions while offering their own interpretation of the iconic role.