Popular British film and stage actor and comedian Eddie Izzard brings her solo performance of "Hamlet" to the American Conservatory Theater's Strand Theater in San Francisco through April 20.

There is no play more iconic than Hamlet. So colossal is its reputation that the image of a man dressed in black holding a skull has come to represent the entire art form of live theatre.

Rick insists this theft of a parent is the root of his suffering. But like Hamlet, he can’t act – not at first. When he ...

It is Shakespeare’s longest work, clocking in at five acts and 30,557 words in its unabridged form. Those words focus largely on the inner thoughts of the play’s endlessly philosophizing and fatally ...

An animated version of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” in a retelling of the classic play set to modern music. Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, is distraught when his father dies. When the ...

“Use all gently,” advises Hamlet to the Player King in Act 3 Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s famed tragedy. “For in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion,” he ...