Stoppard's absurdist play featuring a veritable feast of astute wordplay and wit is newly staged by Helen Hayes Award-winning director Aaron Posner (Romeo and Juliet and Arcadia). This "Best Play" ...

On April 23, 2014 -- the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth -- Shakespeare's Globe embarked on their 2-year global tour of Hamlet, taking the production to every country in the world. The small ...

The reopened Folger Shakespeare Library aims to bring a wider audience to the world’s biggest collection of the Bard’s printed works When Owen Dodson cast Earle Hyman as Hamlet in a production at ...

Now premiering at Folger Theatre, A Room in the Castle focuses on the women: “The most brazen part of this whole play is I actually don’t give a shit about Hamlet.” Sign up for City Lights, our ...

When Anglo American actor Michael Benz was 12 and making his way on British television — playing, among other roles, Little Lord Fauntleroy for the BBC — he was asked to present a bouquet at a benefit ...