Elizabeth Siddal's tragic life as a muse and model and Christina Rossetti’s poetry, expose the Pre-Raphaelite era’s depiction ...

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.

Ophelia, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, carries a poetic charm, while Luna, popularized by Harry Potter, sounds ethereal and ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

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

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.

"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 ...