A new production of Hamlet is arriving at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Directed by Rupert Goold and starring Luke Thallon ...

When I attend a show I only care how the actor “identifies” with the character the playwright conceived, not their personal ...

Hamlet” (the original) was written, of course, in 1600s vintage English blank verse; much of “Fat Ham” is in Black English ...

As I’m writing these words, President Trump is holding a White House news availability with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. He began by showing ...

Which productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? The RSC’s co-artistic director Daniel Evans ...

Jennifer Tang's folio-feminising London production at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse proves that bathos conquers all, even if it ...

“In ‘Hamlet’, the long-winded Polonius says, ‘Brevity is the soul of wit.’ Was Shakespeare satirizing not only the old man, but also the five-act, three-plus hour play he created?

Poetry at the Mansion series for 2025 will include events that explore satire, love and lust, holidays and much more ...

Polonius, it will be recalled, recognises a “method” in Hamlet’s “madness” only because the Danish prince was, in fact, pretending to be mad. Trump’s trade strategy, however, seems to genuinely ...

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obfuscates more and more as it jackknifes along to a conclusion that would leave Hamlet's Polonius with a real categorisation struggle. Scholars have fought over the taxonomy, but the packed out ...

Art has always drawn inspiration from experience, be it the physical world perceived by the senses or more abstract aspects, ...