The show: “Hamlet” at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven First impressions: There have been all sorts of Hamlets over the years but none I venture to say are quite so funny as the one … ...

For Riz Ahmed, who's starring in a new film rendering of Hamlet, he approached the lead role of the William Shakespeare play ...

It’s surprisingly funny at odd moments; a highlight is the deadpan, philosophical gravedigger (Barry Aird).

But cutesy and formulaic as this all might sound, “I Hate Hamlet” is a very clever, funny play. Comic insights abound as Hollywood, method acting and — yes — even Shakespeare ...

For those who missed last week’s column, I’m playing the Ghost in a local, independent production of “Hamlet” the last weekend of August and the first weekend of September. I’m not ...

You’ll be hard-pressed to find a funnier, smarter film all year, and you don’t even need to be familiar with Shakespeare to enjoy it.

Both Prince Hamlet and Juicy, the protagonist of James Ijames’ “Fat Ham,” have an existential choice to make. For Shakespeare’s tortured Dane, it’s a question of &#822… ...

Hamlet 2 doesn’t fall “trippingly” off the tongue. A leaden third act almost kills it. But “the play’s the thing” in this spoof of “inspiring” teacher films, this satire of Red ...

An out-of-work TV star suffers from stage fright over the prospect of playing Hamlet. He's also dismayed at his 29-year-old girlfriend's insistence on abstinence-only. To the rescue, sort of, comes ...