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.

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

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

During pandemic lockdowns, two actors decided to try to stage a Shakespeare play entirely inside the game Grand Theft Auto.

The other choice is chaos — let the students run the classroom and no one learns. “English” explores the tyranny, but fudges the chaos. Left unexplained is how one incompetent student eventually aces ...

I dreamed that I was the producer and director of an animated film. The film was of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet as enacted by Donald Duck and other denizens of the Disney universe. Donald, of course, ...

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.