While writing the novel Hamnet, which imagines the hidden origins of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the author Maggie ...

William Shakespeare grieves the loss of his son, Hamnet, in the film of the same name. The movie is one of many that explore ...

This was the year in which both Paddington and Katniss Everdeen made their theatre debuts, while Les Misérables celebrated ...

Frankenstein' star Jacob Elordi and 'Marty Supreme' actress Gwyneth Paltrow join forces for Actors on Actors and discuss the ...

SHE may be tipped for an Oscar with her new film Hamnet, but one thing you will never see Jessie Buckley doing is appearing ...

The playwright offered a kind of on-ramp to the literary canon, a way into a life of unabashed, unstoppable thinking.

Jessie Buckley as Agnes and Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare in director Chloé Zhao’s "Hamnet." (Courtesy Agata Grzybowska/Focus Features) And boy, was I annoyed by “Hamnet.” It’s the worst movie ...

Though little is known about the life of William Shakespeare's only son, historians say his premature death may have shaped the bard's most famous works. This illustration shows William Shakespeare ...

A film adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley as the Bard and his wife, imagines the lives of the Shakespeare family in fantastical and heartbreaking ...

If ‘Shakespeare’s Plays’ was a topic on ‘Pointless’, Cymbeline might just be a winning answer. This production, at the 340-seat Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, was enough to convince me that’s an ...

If you’re unsure how you feel about Shakespeare’s morally difficult and dubiously comedic play “The Taming of the Shrew,” the clever but muddled adaptation now running at Union Arts Center probably ...