Fortinbras is a role in Hamlet, a play that opened Off-Broadway in 2026. William Shakespeare’s Hamlet tells the story of the young prince of Denmark, who discovers that his father has been murdered by ...

Hamlet is lying in the arms of his faithful servant Horatio, taking his last breaths of life. Bodies are scattered around the castle and finally, Hamlet perishes. Thus, the stage is set for Irvine ...

Shakespeare started it. He turned Hamlet’s father into a ghost and then left that pile of bodies at the play’s end. It was inevitable, wasn’t it, that some mischievous playwright would come along to ...

That was the inspiration for Lee Blessing’s 1991 play “Fortinbras,” which spins a humorous postscript to “Hamlet.” Not as frequently produced as “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” Tom Stoppard’s ...

7:30 p.m. Theater! Theatre! Something's funny in the state of Denway. Or is that Normark? In any case, Hamlet and that crowd are dead, young Fortinbras of Norway has stumbled upon a grim scene and a ...

Friday night, a talented cast of student actors and crew opened their production of “Fortinbras” at Cabrillo College’s Black Box Theater. Skip Epperson’s influence was evident in a masterful set that ...

Backstage at Cabrillo College’s theater Tuesday night, student actors were buzzing with excitement as they tried on their costumes and prepared for their first dress rehearsal. The minutes were ...

Lee Blessing’s “Fortinbras” has really come into its own. Anyone who first saw the play a decade or more ago may have been genuinely amused by Blessing’s cheeky, offbeat comedy. However, in its ...

Scott Werve is on the verge of earning a master’s degree in theater-directing from UC Irvine, but is convinced the art form he has studied is hopelessly out of touch with people like himself who have ...

Fortinbras is a role in Hamlet, a play that opened Washington, DC (Regional) in 2018. In Hamlet, the greatest character of Western literature confronts the meaning of life, the bonds and limits of ...

Many of us are familiar with the tragic story of Hamlet, but have you ever wondered what happened to “the state of Denmark” after his folly? Well, on April 26, Irvine High School explained just that ...