As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, ...

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LONDON (AP) - Actor Benedict Cumberbatch has urged fans not to film his stage performance of Shakespeare's play "Hamlet." The star, who is playing the lead in the play at London's Barbican theater, ...

The first picture of Benedict Cumberbatch in BBC Two's The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses has been released. The actor - who is playing the lead role of Richard III in one of the channel's three ...

Amazon isn’t messing with a hit. The company is reviving last year’s viral “5-Star Theater” campaign, this time starring Benedict Cumberbatch, who lends Shakespeare-class gravitas to the most ordinary ...

Those who associate Shakespeare's "bottled spider" with various excuses through the years for overindulgence and/or camp got instead a portrait of gathering psychosis that was considerably more biting ...