Hamlet News

In the running: Enron is a contender for the best play while its star, Samuel West, is up for best actor Special award: the Best Actress award is in honour of Natasha Richardson With 2009 set to be a blockbuster year at the box office, today's longlist for the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards proves it has been 12 months of critical as well ...

Opera fans who travel across country to see some of the biggest productions live on the stage of the famed Metropolitan Opera in New York City now can see the same productions close to home.

In this film publicity image released by Disney, Bob Cratchit carries Tiny Tim, both characters voiced by Gary Oldman, in a scene from "A Christmas Carol." Lionel Barrymore.

American soul legend Al Green will help inject a whole lotta love into the Sydney Festival in 2010, headlining the event alongside The Velvet Underground's John Cale and Slumdog Millionaire composer A.R. Rahman.

The abrupt closing Sunday of Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" after only nine performances has cast a brief, uneasy shadow over Broadway's fall season, ironically one of the busiest in years.

IN A year in which the shadowy figure of recession spread its cape across the world, it is no surprise that the film for which 2008 will be remembered is one of its most bleak.

Jude Law would seem the ideal choice to play Hamlet. It is, after all, a revenge play with all the trappings of a B movie.

Some jokes are just too good - and too obvious - to resist. When Oscar-nominated British actor Sir Ian McKellen - who is probably best known in America for playing the super-powered mutant Magneto in the "X-Men" movies - spent Tuesday morning touring the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Innovation Park, the Magneto quips came fast and ...

Richard Wilson is the latest star to don Malvolio's yellow stockings for the RSC - what is it about the great grump that attracts actors? Hamlet, Macbeth, Lear a ' and Malvolio? Few audiences would rank Twelfth Night's misanthrope, tricked into capering about in a pair of yellow stockings, as one of Shakespeare's major roles.

A breathtaking production of Giacomo Puccini's last opera "Turandot" will be brought to life in downtown Potsdam on Saturday, Nov.

A celebrated, stage-trained player, Derek Jacobi has made occasional forays in film and television, generally in prestigious projects.

This Friday, the remake of the '80s horror film The Stepfather , starring Gossip Girl 's Penn Badgley , opens in theaters, continuing Hollywood's tradition of evil stepparents .

Barrymores and Hamlet take center stage in N.Y. productions By DAVID. A ROSENBERG Hour Theater Critic In 1922, the Great Profile played the Great Dane to much acclaim.

Logic and the calendar say no, no, no. The facts, however, demand another story altogether.

The tremendous merit of Mr. John Gielgud's long-awaited "Hamlet" is its fidelity.

Julia Stiles first played the role of life-wrecker Carol in "Oleanna" when she was in college, and the play, about a confused student who accuses her professor of sexual impropriety, stuck with her well beyond the final curtain.

Caption: Bill Pullman Preview for 'Oleanna' on Broadway at John Golden Theatre - Stage Door New York City, USA .... BILL PULLMAN and JULIA STILES have earned mixed reviews from Broadway theatre critics with their revival of DAVID MAMET's play OLEANNA.

At the finale of the last "Hamlet" to be seen in New York , Fortinbras called for a hero's cannonade to honor the slain Prince of Denmark - "Go, bid the soldiers shoot" - only to have his lieutenant whip out a pistol and shoot Horatio.

Broadway maintained its momentum last week, with a slew of new productions in previews, plus some major openers.

Saturday October 10 2009 TOSCA Luc Bondy in his house debut, starring Karita Mattila in her first performance of the title role outside her native Finland, and Marcelo A lvarez as Cavaradossi.