Grand Theft Hamlet is now playing in theaters. This review is based on a screening at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival. Spoiler alert: I cried at the end of Grand Theft Hamlet. Yeah, the documentary about ...

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 ...

Set in London's South Asian community, the Telluride-premiering film relies (mostly) on the Bard's language. By Caryn James This latest version of Hamlet begins with a death ritual. Riz Ahmed, as the ...

If you’ve been keeping score like us, you’d know that Hamlet is one of the most recycled stories in human history. From countless movie adaptations to stage versions to Disney remakes to detective ...

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 ...

Around 1905 or 1906, Sigmund Freud wrote an essay, unpublished in his lifetime, called “Psychopathic Characters on the Stage.”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

Telluride: Aneil Karia does an effective job of setting the classic text among South Asian characters in London, but Ahmed's fittingly excessive performance is the star of the show. Whenever a new ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Thomas Ostermeier’s production of “Hamlet,” presented as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave festival, unleashes more madness than what ...