MacShrek: The Comedy of Ogres at Orlando Fringe Orlando Fringe has seen far more than its faire share of mashups between the ...

Kerry Condon is an Irish film and television actress best known for her work as the youngest Ophelia in the Royal Shakespeare ...

Michael Pennington, the actor and writer who has died aged 82, chose to give his Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Company in ...

From Charlie Chaplin to Alfred Hitchcock, you can see every blue plaque for film and theatre (Image: ) London has long been ...

William Shakespeare's “Hamlet” is having a resurgence with various adaptations and performances worldwide. A National Theatre ...

Akira Kurosawa is a filmmaker whose influence was so strong that it revolutionised cinema beyond his own culture, and while ...

In new projects, the British actor of South Asian descent takes on two parts — James Bond and Hamlet — that have long been defining roles for white actors. By Maya Phillips James Bond: a coveted role ...

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the lovelorn Ophelia famously drowns. The prince of Denmark has cruelly spurned her, her father has died, and she’s stricken with grief. If only she had realized Taylor ...

If you’re going to tackle a Shakespeare play on film –– particularly the complex web of family tragedy that is ‘Hamlet’ -- be prepared for challenges. But with this present-day version, director Aneil ...

This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. You can listen to an extended version in the latest episode of The Mishal Husain Show podcast. Your new film ...

It is fairly common to see Shakespearean plays re-set in a different time, sometimes retaining Shakespeare’s language and largely just changing costumes and settings, or sometimes re-writing the ...

Why do artists keep returning to William Shakespeare? His plays — rife with explorations of deep humanity and emotion — provide not just a framework for hanging many different worlds upon his words, ...