Star Wars and stage: Pennington was best known internationally as Moff Jerjerrod in Return of the Jedi but built his reputation through decades of acclaimed Shakespearean performances. Tributes from ...

Born in Cambridge in 1942, Pennington found a passion for the stage as a member of the National Youth Theatre. Studying at Cambridge University, he appeared in 30 undergraduate plays and made his ...

He first took the role in a university production, and in 1965 Peter Hall cast him as Fortinbras in the RSC production starring David Warner as Hamlet. Later, in 1969, Pennington was cast in the ...

The Off-Broadway transfer of Hamlet from London's National Theatre officially opened at the Off-Broadway company's Harvey Theater May 4, and the reviews are rolling in! See what critics had to say ...

Riz Ahmed in "Hamlet," directed by Aneil Karia. (Courtesy Vertical) Writing the line “brevity is the soul of wit” in a four-hour play is an irony that undoubtedly did not escape its author, who put it ...

Eddie Izzard’s staggering solo performance of “The Tragedy of Hamlet” at Shakespeare Theatre Company, in which she takes on every one of 23 characters before a single stripped-down set, is far from a ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

The Development Finance Corporation (DFC), a little-known government agency, opened its first Wall Street outpost last week — and it’s got $205 billion and a mission to out-invest China on the world ...

“Hamlet” can be a behemoth. Long, laden with droves of characters, philosophically complex, dramaturgically unwieldy and a main character who cannot help but spout so very many words. A bit of ...

Timothy Spall and Art Malik co-star in Aneil Karia’s intelligent and stark retelling of Shakespeare’s tragedy, set in the world of shady family business Screenwriter Michael Lesslie and director Aneil ...

Let us begin with a basic truism. Every age wants to believe that it is uniquely doomed. There is narcissistic self-love disguised as loathing, as well as an exaggerated projection of achievement ...