Hamlet

...film adaptation of the play that same year. It was his first film appearance. His work in the West End included Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet (both 1858), Two Cities (1968), The White Devil and Cyrano de Bergerac (both 1971), The Wolf (1973),...

In this article: Edward Woodward, The Equalizer, Callan, London, Noel Coward, Cornwall, and Romeo and Juliet

...entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at age 16. As a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he played roles in "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet," "Pericles" and "Much Ado About Nothing." Other West End parts included the title role in...

In this article: Edward Woodward, The Equalizer, Bruce Beresford, Breaker Morant, Emmy, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, The Wicker Man, and Golden Globe

...Olivier, Ben Kingsley and Patrick Stewart. He introduced Glenda Jackson to the theatre in 1962. His famous productions include Hamlet with Paul Scofield, Marat/Sade, Oedipus with John Gielgud, and The Mahabharata. His book The Empty...

In this article: Peter Brook, John Gielgud, London, Paris, New Zealand, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Marat/Sade, Legion d'honneur, and Second World War

Like TS Eliot's Prufrock, he was an attendant lord, never the lord himself, but he was the perfect gravedigger for Alan Rickman's Hamlet, or indeed Justice Shallow for Simon Callow's Falstaff in Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight at...

In this article: Timothy Bateson, David Copperfield, John Gielgud, Rutland, Waiting for Godot, The Country Wife, Kenneth Tynan, William Shakespeare, and William Wycherley

...classical acting talent more in the vein of Laurence Olivier than Zac Efron. Only 29, he's already been this decade's most lauded Hamlet, played screen versions of Bob Dylan and Keith Richards that make the real deals pale by comparison and...

In this article: Ben Whishaw, John Keats, Hamlet, Bright Star, Jane Campion, Oscar, Charles Brown, and I'm Not There

...he was 16), critics fell over themselves in praise of his performance. Nunn had wanted a vulnerable Hamlet and found a perfect match in Whishaw. "Great Hamlets blaze across the theatrical firmament about as often as Halley's Comet," wrote...

In this article: Ben Whishaw, John Keats, Bright Star, Royal Court Theatre, Sebastian Flyte, Primo Levi, Brideshead Revisited, and Trevor Nunn

...like greased lightning' On the night Vanessa Redgrave was born, in 1937, her father Michael was playing Laertes to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet at the Old Vic in London. At the curtain call, Olivier silenced the applause to announce:...

In this article: Kind Hearts and Coronets, Tim Burton, Ice cream, Laertes, William Shakespeare, and Laurence Olivier

...recalls being fascinated by cinema as a child. His earliest memory of film is being taken by his grandmother to see Laurence Olivier in Hamlet at the age of four. "She said afterwards that I had to leave after three minutes because I was...

In this article: Michael Haneke, The White Ribbon, The Seventh Continent, Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche, The Piano Teacher, Pineapple, Munich, and Copenhagen

Jude Law is hoping to repeat his recent West End triumph in the title role of "Hamlet" when he opens on Broadway tonight. Previews began Sept. 12, and buzz is building about the production. Following the run at the Donmar Warehouse, which...

In this article: Jude Law, Broadway, Hamlet, RSS, Facebook, Oscar, Richard Burton, and Laurence Olivier

...luxury yachts," says Michelle Finkelstein, vice president of travel agency OurPersonalGuest. "Unfortunately they miss out on this quaint hamlet with cobblestone streets, gelaterias and quirky art galleries." Imbued with old-world charm,...

In this article: Europe, William Shakespeare, Northern Ireland, Eiffel Tower, and Helsingor