Around 1905 or 1906, Sigmund Freud wrote an essay, unpublished in his lifetime, called “Psychopathic Characters on the Stage.”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

If you aren’t a fervent lover of Shakespearean drama, especially his poetically tragic plays, you won’t mind a comical adaptation of his most popular tragedy, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.

Thomas Ostermeier’s pedal-to-the-metal, German-language “Hamlet” has come to New York at last. It has been a fourteen-year wait: the Schaubühne Berlin production was first shown at the Hellenic ...

Over the course of the five acts of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the eponymous Prince of Denmark is betrayed, attacked by pirates and poisoned. Yet in Clever Enough's new spin on the play, the ...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that a new version of “Hamlet” premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on Saturday, because this particular Shakespeare tragedy seems to be in the air these days. Most ...

Thomas Ostermeier’s production of “Hamlet,” presented as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave festival, unleashes more madness than what Shakespeare has already offered. By Maya Phillips ...

You can tell a lot about a Shakespeare production by the director’s choice of where to place an intermission — i.e., where the action stops and in what state it leaves the audience. In this ...

Death, tragedy, madness design the world of Hamlet, directed by Aniel Karia. It’s a novel attempt at adaptation that’s true to the nerves of the play, but also experiments with the visual medium. Riz ...

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