When Maggie O’Farrell was 16, she wore a lot of black, a lot of eyeliner and she had a passion for the arts. That’s when she read William Shakespeare’s masterpiece Hamlet for the first time. “It ...

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.

Mystery Science Theater 3000‘s annual fan-favorite Thanksgiving “Turkey Day” marathon returns in 2024 with a lineup of 11 classic episodes, shared by former and ...

Agnes Hathaway, the elusive heroine of the director Chloé Zhao’s new film, Hamnet, seems happiest when in nature: retreating to the woods as often as she can, collecting mushrooms, tucking into tree ...

In her moving 2020 novel, Hamnet, the Northern Irish writer Maggie O'Farrell explored the possibility that a real-life tragedy may have inspired one of the greatest fictional tragedies ever written.

In the beginning of the universe, matter somehow outmaneuvered antimatter, creating the stuff-filled universe we know and love today. Scientists from two large long-baseline experiments in the U.S.

Jim Mallon, co-creator of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" and director of the 1986 film "Blood Hook," poses with the puppet Gypsy, which he voiced on the show, at his home on Monday in Eden Prairie, ...

When I began my master’s program in cognitive science, an electrical engineering professor told us—rather arrogantly—that the soul is nothing but neurons firing. “You’re deluded if you think otherwise ...

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 ...

Taylor Swift was inspired once again by great works of literature while writing several songs on her 12th studio album, "The Life of a Showgirl," which dropped Oct. 3. The album kicks off with the ...

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 ...