Legendary Japanese director Mamoru Hosada takes us inside his long awaited new animated feature, Scarlet, a riff on Hamlet ...

A preliminary calendar of animated feature films releasing in 2026, from major studio sequels to original anime, Pixar, ...

For centuries, William Shakespeare has existed as a monolith. We know the plays, the Sonnets, the academic arguments. What we don’t know, really, is the life: the household, the marriage, the mess.

It's just a game: Hiran Abeysekera in 'Hamlet' When the lights come up, we’re transported into an enormous room, a banqueting hall of sorts, with a tapestry stretched across the back wall, candled ...

Hiran Abeysekera brings humour to the tragedy and Francesca Mills steals the show as Ophelia but this staging pulls its emotional punches Last week, Indhu Rubasingham launched her inaugural programme ...

For this is a Hamlet which is not simply in modern dress, but embraces modern sensibilities. We recognise now that grief can manifest itself in many different ways, so our titular prince doesn’t have ...

A star is born in this new production of Hamlet, the seventh in the National Theatre’s history. It isn’t the Prince, played by Hiran Abeysekera, but Francesca Mills’s Ophelia who brings this ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Now here he is at the National Theatre in a production, directed by Robert Hastie (new deputy artistic director ...

Hiran Abeysekera makes a flippant, manic Hamlet in this muddled take on the quintessential tragedy Leaning into every opportunity for unsettling humour, but neglecting the rich emotional depth that ...

In her follow-up to the "The Tortured Poets Department," Taylor Swift is continuing to delight her bookish fans with literary references on her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl." The 35-year ...

If you’ve been keeping score like us, you’d know that Hamlet is one of the most recycled stories in human history. From countless movie adaptations to stage versions to Disney remakes to detective ...

The actor reteams with Aneil Karia, the director of his Oscar-winning short 'The Long Goodbye,' in a listless update of the classic play. Transposed to modern-day London, where Hamlet belongs to a ...