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 ...
William Shakespeare continues to inspire more than 400 years after his death. His plays have endured, and remain a source of inspiration for Hollywood: a loose adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing, ...
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 ...
In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Dr Nick Walton from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust talks about the ...
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 ...
(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 ...
Faced with a barrage of student and faculty disapproval, Harvard Theatre Workshop last night tossed "Hamlet" overboard and renewed its search for a spring production. The decision came after casting ...
Every actor makes Hamlet their own, but none portrayed the character better than Laurence Olivier, who also directed this 1948 Shakespeare adaptation with tighter focus than any version before or ...
In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Directed by and starring Laurence Olivier in the title role, this ...