Hamlet finds that his father has died under suspicious circumstances and that his uncle, Claudius, has effectively made himself king of Denmark and married Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude. As a result ...

Already grieving for his father and sickened by the recent remarriage of his mother, Queen Gertrude (Nancy Carroll) to his uncle Claudius (Jared Harris), Hamlet learns that Claudius had in fact ...

The Reduced Shakespeare Company built their reputation on going big. Since their founding in 1982, the company has tackled the complete works of William Shakespeare, the histories of America, comedy, ...

"Claudius, the king who is the murderer, will be in a dark suit with a red tie and a flag lapel pin," she said. "So, you can imagine what reference that is." Richards has directed other Shakespeare ...

The girl-power premise behind Lauren Gunderson’s A Room in the Castle has good stuff, but is unevenly executed.

The play-within-a-play — Hamlet’s strategy to expose Claudius — becomes a reflection on visibility, on how our actors reclaim space in a world that often overlooks them.” The production ...

How do you choreograph “To be or not to be”? That is the question, or at least one of them, for anybody looking to make a movement piece out of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” This past ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has unveiled the complete cast and creative team for its highly anticipated “Hamlet Hail to ... Enemy of the People”) as Claudius and the Ghost.