Hamlet is typically seen as the epitome of a serious play: visualise it on stage and you’re probably imagining a sober black-clad prince, clutching a skull and brooding miserably on his own mortality ...

The British performer brings her solo show of Shakespeare’s play to LA for seven performances at the Montalban Theatre.

Mr. McCarter adapted and directed a new audio version of “Hamlet.” “It is we who are Hamlet,” wrote the essayist and critic William Hazlitt. Though that observation is more than 200 years old, the ...