EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (1917) has linked up with acclaimed His Dark Materials writer Jack Thorne on a new project for the stage that will explore how legendary acting figures ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. It all started somewhat in jest while the film Becket was being shot in 1963. Stars Peter O’Toole and Richard ...

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Mendes has picked Johnny Flynn (Emma, Beast), Tuppence Middleton (Downton Abbey, Mank) and Sherlock’s Mark Gatiss to portray legendary stars Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and John ...

In 1993, John Loengard asked George Silk—a New Zealander who had been a staff photographer for LIFE from 1943 until the magazine stopped publishing as a weekly in 1972—if, in his long career, Silk had ...

A long-lost film of Richard Burton's 1964 Tony-winning Broadway performance of Hamlet premieres on the Internet next month. A digitally restored version of the three ...

Hamlet. Richard Burton plays Hamlet as Hamlet would like to have been. He may be self-critical, but he is never self-doubting. He is whole of soul, single of mind, undivided of purpose. If the text ...

IN 1964, Elizabeth LeCompte saw Richard Burton play Hamlet on Broadway. John Gielgud’s stripped-down production put Burton in a turtleneck and performers eschewed the bard’s singsongy verse and spoke ...

Any director of “Hamlet” must decide what kind of ghost will haunt the melancholy prince. Will it be a sheet-draped actor rattling chains, an apparition of special effects or a disembodied voice ...

Elizabeth LeCompte’s latest avant-garde experiment in high-tech disorientation and miked automatons might be described as the world’s first karaoke production Elizabeth LeCompte’s latest avant-garde ...

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton at opening night party after his opening on Broadway in Hamlet in 1964 Getty Images EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (1917) has linked up with acclaimed ...