A Room in the Castle, by Lauren M. Gunderson, premiering at the Folger Theatre, is a fresh look at a story we thought we knew ...

One new play focuses on Gertrude and Ophelia. Another on Queen Margaret. Only one succeeds.

Schepisi took a couple of liberties with the original play. He changed the setting from 1700s Paris into a ski resort town in the 1980s; moved the action from the Hôtel de Bourgogne into a fire house; ...

Enter “A Room in the Castle,” currently playing at Folger Theatre in Capitol Hill, which centers the women barely acknowledged in The Bard’s original “Hamlet” and relegates the titular character to an ...

the Prince of Demark is unseen and unheard since the women — Ophelia (Sabrina Lynne Sawyer), Hamlet’s mother, Queen Gertrude (Oneika Phillips), and the newly imagined lady’s maid to Ophelia, Anna ...

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm) closes its 40th anniversary season with a captivating new production of “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare, the playwright whose work cemented ...

You cannot help but feel for Hamlet, even though he is conflicting, to say the least. Theatrical praise should also be given to Jared Harris’s stoic Claudius and Nancy Carroll’s Gertrude ... Although ...

From the Danish prince’s existential philosophizing to Ophelia’s devastating break from reality, Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is a gold mine of powerful speeches—the brooding titular ...

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, ...