When you hear William Shakespeare’s name, you likely think back to high school when you had to read the CliffsNotes to ...

Ophelia Thinks Harder is presented by Fingerless Theatre in association with bAKEHOUSE Theatre Co at KXT on Broadway, March 14–29. Tickets are on sale for $30–$50 over here.

Kronborg Castle in Helsingør stands tall as a reminder of Denmark’s past power, which inspired William Shakespeare to make it ...

The girl-power premise behind Lauren Gunderson’s A Room in the Castle has good stuff, but is unevenly executed.

She quickly adds, “Without losing the tragedy.” Continuing this line of thought she offers her thoughts on Ophelia, Hamlet’s love interest who drowns herself when rejected by him.

Two highlights are Hamlet’s break-up duet with Ophelia and his accusatory dance with his mother, both violent, the second, oddly, as sexually charged as the first. Or perhaps that’s the point.

Ophelia sees this, feels this, knows this, yet pines for his attentions. Something is truly rotten in the state of Denmark.

Ophelia Thinks Harder by Jean Betts and Shakespeare is a feminist reading of Hamlet with Ophelia at its centre, performed at ...

A Room in the Castle, by Lauren M. Gunderson, premiering at the Folger Theatre, is a fresh look at a story we thought we knew – and demands that we reconsider the tale from other viewpoints. The ...

"Leslee wanted movement in the ghost scene, so she introduced characters called ghostlets, who shadow the ghost (of Hamlet's father)," Chazin-Bennahum said. "And she wanted movement in Ophelia's ...