Wesley Whitson and Christy Watkins in Bedlam's Hamlet at 4th Wall Theatre Co. Credit: Photo by Gabriella Nissen The world’s most famous play – some might say greatest play – receives a superlative ...

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 ...

All the world's a stage in Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane's poignant, unorthodox doc about unemployed actors providing escapism for others and themselves in a video game. Crane and his fellow actor buddy ...

For those who struggle to understand and even shy away from the genius that is William Shakespeare, fear not—The University ...

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 ...

For the most recent precedent for Grand Theft Hamlet, you’d probably have to go back nearly 20 years, to a 2006 episode of South Park. Titled “Make Love, Not Warcraft,” it found Cartman marshaling his ...

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 ...

There are, at a minimum, and I checked, 18 bazillion adaptations of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” It’s one of the most beloved and scrutinized texts in the whole of the English language. More actors ...

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 ...

There aren't a lot of places where Shakespeare has never been performed, but the riotous (in every possible sense of the word) new film Grand Theft Hamlet finds one. The action is to borrow a phrase ...

To be an artist, or not to be? That is the question of “Grand Theft Hamlet,” a guns-blazingly funny documentary about two out-of-work British actors who spent a chunk of their COVID-19 lockdown ...