Robert Eggers’ latest movie, Nosferatu, has become something of a box office phenomenon. Retelling the classic vampire story ...

The film captures two players staging the classic within an online video game, raising fascinating questions about community ...

“I wonder if you could actually stage something here,” Crane’s avatar muses at the start of the documentary “Grand Theft Hamlet.” So begins a ludicrous journey to making one of the ...

Playwright James Ijames’ Broadway play is now getting its first Chicago-based production with an ensemble cast.

“To be or not to be, that is the question.” The Shakespeare quote, from Hamlet, was not a reference to whether or not someone could pull off creating an entire theatrical performance within ...

To be an artist, or not to be? That is the question of “Grand Theft Hamlet,” a guns-blazingly funny documentary about two out-of-work British actors who spent a chunk of their COVID-19 ...

There are, at a minimum, and I checked, 18 bazillion adaptations of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” It’s one of the most beloved and scrutinized texts in the whole of the English language.

Playwright James Ijames plays constantly with two types of expectations: the ones your family places on you, and the ones that Shakespeare has placed on all of us.

However, Grand Theft Hamlet explores this unique combination of past and present while revealing new and unexpected narrative layers at every turn. The animated documentary follows two actors ...