Laurence Olivier stars in and directs this classic version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the towering tragedy of the Danish prince who feigns madness to trap his father's murderer. This brilliant ...

See Melina Matsoukas’s debut feature on HBO. Or watch Laurence Olivier’s 1948 “Hamlet” on TCM. By Gabe Cohn QUEEN & SLIM (2019) 9 p.m. on HBO. In the blink of an eye, a sputtering first date turns ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on Sept. 30, 1948. This story was written by Kate Cameron.) When Ben Jonson said of his fellow-playwright, William Shakespeare, that he “was not of an age, but ...

FOLLOWING the fashion in movies and books, Sir Laurence Olivier has acted and directed a Hamlet with a simplified Freudian interpretation. The mad Ophelia makes caressing motions over a phallic ...

Laurence Olivier would've celebrated his 112th birthday on May 22, 2019. The Oscar-winning thespian is best remembered for his psychologically intense Shakespeare adaptations, both as an actor and a ...

CanStage’s Shakespeare in High Park (SiHP) has specialized in outdoor productions of the Bard’s comedies (and the occasional Romeo and Juliet) since the 1980s, but it began pairing comedies with other ...

William Shakespeare has more screen credits than any other writer, and “Hamlet,” in one form or another, has been filmed more than any of his plays. The first version, lasting all of two minutes, was ...

Croall begins by citing TS Eliot saying that Hamlet is Shakespeare’s Mona Lisa, and goes on to quote John Dover Wilson (author of the 1951 book What Happens in Hamlet) saying there are as many Hamlets ...

While I was in middle school and during my high school years, I dedicated one of my classroom periods each semester to being a student aide in the classrooms for what was then termed “special needs ...

After spending much of the year complaining about what was wrong with the movies, the critics paused long enough last week to pick the ten best of 1948. By week’s end, four notable lists’ had appeared ...