Washington, D.C.'s Shakespeare Theatre Company has unveiled its upcoming 40th anniversary season, which will include a Wendell Pierce-led Othello, the U.S. premiere of Hamnet, a new revival of ...

The brief life of William Shakespeare's son Hamnet is now quite well known, thanks to Maggie O'Farrell's novel, but Hamnet also had a twin sister Judith, who outlived her brother by many decades.

First, from the Royal Shakespeare Company, in its first time at STC, comes the U.S. premiere of Hamnet, an “elegant and beguiling” (Evening Standard) staging of the beloved best-selling novel ...

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Paul Mescal has steadily risen through the ranks to become one of the industry's most acclaimed and in-demand actors for his ...

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Up next for him is Chloé Zhao's Hamnet, the adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 novel of the same name. The novel is a fictionalization of William Shakespeare's life following the death of his ...

Elsewhere, Nomadland director Chloé Zhao returns with Hamnet, which stars Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley as William and Agnes Shakespeare in a fictionalization of their life following the death ...

Two years later, the couple had twins, Hamnet and Judith, but their son died when he was 11 years old. Again, a gap in the records leads some scholars to refer to Shakespeare’s life between 1585 ...

Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell’s novel stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal as Agnes and William Shakespeare in the time after the death of their son, Hamnet. Steven Spielberg and Sam ...

The Sydney Writers’ Festival has revealed its 2025 program, with powerhouse authors set to make an appearance.The ...