During a pandemic lockdown, out-of-work actors turned to the video game Grand Theft Auto Online, where a tortured soliloquy may be interrupted by a rocket launcher.

A new documentary transforms the ultraviolent world of “GTA Online” into an absurd and profound Shakespearean stage.

How three out-of-work friends spent COVID staging a tragedy inside a comedy in GTA Online — and made a doc about it ...

Between the movie’s pandemic premise and its subjects ruminating on one of Shakespeare’s heaviest texts, Grand Theft Hamlet echoes the idea of mortality in several quiet ways — the idea of what it ...

Faced with COVID lockdown, two out-of-work actors reach for Shakespeare in an experimental documentary that creates art on ...

In 2020, British actor Sam Crane was poised to take the next step in his career when he was cast as Harry Potter in the ...

The film captures two players staging the classic within an online video game, raising fascinating questions about community and connection. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an ...

“To be or not to be, that is the question.” The Shakespeare quote, from Hamlet, was not a reference to whether or not someone could pull off creating an entire theatrical performance within ...

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 ...

Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls' Grand Theft Hamlet is a funny and charming use of its titular game, even if it ultimately feels ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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