William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" was playing Friday inside the curfew zone set up to control protests in Los Angeles.

The play, set in Denmark, was in its first drafts in the early 1600s when the idea of a revenge drama was new and very popular. With "Hamlet," Shakespeare took that concept and turned it on its ...

We can make them feel that they’re inside the main character’s head,” Make-Believe Association founder Jeremy McCarter said. “And I just thought, well, if we can do that, what would be a more ...

or steely revenge. Okay, so I am a fan of this production, and I have come here to praise this Hamlet and not to bury it. But I fear I may be over-flowery in my acclamation, and some may think I ...

Only after this welcoming opening do we get the awful scenes in which the dead king, appearing to Hamlet, urges revenge on the brother who murdered him and then married his wife. As his giant ...

The tragic demise of Hamlet and Ophelia, driven by revenge and resulting in a watery end, were echoed by the death of two characters. Belinda's departure, set to Billy Preston's "Nothing From ...

It’s no slur on “Grand Theft Hamlet” to say that such depths lie beyond its scope. What it most resembles, to my eyes and ears, are the revenge tragedies that preceded and succeeded ...

Ample reason for revenge, you might think. But, instead, Hamlet mooches about delivering soliloquies on the meaning of life and death. The iconic image is of the prince staring at a skull as he ...

Walker). The act of revenge is an opportunity for Juicy to prove to the men in his family that he isn’t soft and he isn’t weak. One has to squint hard to find other “Hamlet” connections in ...

Her interpretation of the often debated motives of Hamlet is that rather than being a person driven insane by a reluctance to take action, he is a shrewd seeker of revenge who is acting mad.

And over the course of some 2 and a half hours, she will tackle 23 roles to tell “Hamlet” and its story of madness and revenge. That’s the reason to see this show, coming to Seattle Rep ...