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Native Son caught up with Kyri to talk about what it means to take on the role of Hamlet as a Black queer man, how his hometown of Chicago continues to shape his artistic voice, and why music, acting, ...
Director Robert O'Hara's noir version of 'Hamlet,' starring Patrick Ball and premiering at Mark Taper Forum, audaciously but incoherently toys with Shakespeare's tragedy.
Robert O'Hara, who is bringing a very reinterpreted version of 'Hamlet' to L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum, talks about its film noir and David Lynch touches.
Patrick Ball talks about playing 'Hamlet' in stage in a very unusual adaptation at the Mark Taper Forum in L.A., while resuming work on 'The Pitt.' ...
The Avant Bard Theatre’s niche lies in reinventing the classics, and to close out its 35th season, Avant Bard Theatre is taking on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This rendition, directed by artistic ...
McEleney has directed “Hamlet” almost as if it was a film noir, well, maybe a stage noir, in which the main character is an everyman trapped in the undertow of a tragedy he cannot escape.
Grant Chapman, who was cast to play Hamlet for this production a year ago, said it's a version of the character that he could get behind. "He's someone who is like, 'Oh, God, this is not what I ...
There’s a method to the madness, as a “Hamlet” character might say, in the collaboration between Island City Stage, Brévo Theatre and GableStage for their production of James Ijames’s 2… ...
‘Fat Ham’ is a frivolous but fearless reconception of ‘Hamlet’ To be, or not to be, is the driving question behind James Ijames’s play and Wilbury Theatre’s Rhode Island premiere ...
In Hamlet, three other major characters, Rosencranz, Guilderstein and Horatio are also cast without regard to gender. Helmer insists the gender switch is not a big deal.
Elizabeth Helmer plays the title character in Home Made Theater’s production of “Hamlet,” running Feb. 28 to March 9 at Saratoga Music Hall in Saratoga Springs.
The documentary, following a production of “Hamlet” within “Grand Theft Auto V,” is a high mark for the machinima genre of in-game filmmaking.