Little Amélie and the Character of Rain” masters nostalgia, transferring its landscape of Japan into a playground of wonder ...

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Three local productions put the Bard’s most famous tragedy in bold new light — from an intimate 55-minute staging to a Southern cookout to a comedy about an actor who’d rather not. Something’s rotten ...

INDHU RUBASINGHAM’s tenure as the artistic director of the National Theatre has a kind of “back to the future” feel to it. Kicking off her first season was her debate-worthy take on Euripides’s ...

Taylor Swift reimagines the fate of the tragic “Hamlet” heroine on her new album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” But did she really need saving? By Lindsay Zoladz “No one likes a mad woman,” Taylor Swift ...

What a pity, then, that this promise peters out, and an ambitious conceit ultimately fails to deliver. It’s one thing presenting Hamlet as an almost childlike clown, whose emotions are heightened even ...

Hamlet is typically seen as the epitome of a serious play: visualise it on stage and you’re probably imagining a sober black-clad prince, clutching a skull and brooding miserably on his own mortality ...

Hiran Abeysekera in Hamlet at the Lyttelton Theatre is a production with plenty of ideas even if it is hit and miss Hiran Abeysekera brings a manic, impulsive, boyish energy to Shakespeare’s Hamlet in ...

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A star is born in this new production of Hamlet, the seventh in the National Theatre’s history. It isn’t the Prince, played by Hiran Abeysekera, but Francesca Mills’s Ophelia who brings this ...

Hiran Abeysekera makes a flippant, manic Hamlet in this muddled take on the quintessential tragedy Leaning into every opportunity for unsettling humour, but neglecting the rich emotional depth that ...