"Hamnet," in theaters Wednesday, is a moving drama about grief and a refreshing exploration of William Shakespeare's famous ...

Spinning off Shakespeare, waltzing through Imperial Russia, bantering about literature or diving deeply into history, ...

Tom Stoppard’s contributions to cinema – official and unofficial – are far richer than you’d know from a cursory look at what ...

Our love of his plays have led to a centuries-long fascination with the writer. So why does each new fictional iteration get ...

At its heart, Hamnet is about grief, love, marriage, parenthood, and the emotional experiences that history did not preserve.

Yes. Hamnet was the only son of Agnes and William, and the twin brother of their second daughter, Judith. He died at the age ...

Chloé Zhao’s film depicts the inspiration for “Hamlet” as a relentlessly woeful tale.

British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s ...

The Taming of the Shrew” and “Much Ado About Nothing” are each difficult shows to stage in the modern day. Directors ...

As filming began director Chloé Zhao announced she wanted a sexy Shakespeare. Mescal had no issue with that clarion call on ...

Spielberg produced Chloé Zhao's new movie, which stars Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley as William and Agnes Shakespeare.

Based on a 2020 novel by Maggie O'Farrell, director Chloé Zhao's film presupposes that “Hamlet” was not a reworking of the ...