Ian McKellen can speed through Richard III — no problem. He's also played King Lear and the Danish prince. But Chloe Zhao's Hamnet, which imagines the creative origins of William Shakespeare's Hamlet?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ian McKellen, who has spent his career interpreting Shakespearean protagonists from Richard III to King Lear, voiced his ...

Sir Ian McKellen, known as one of the foremost British cultural icons, admitted that he did not “quite get” Hamnet, the latest film by Chloe Zhao starring Paul Mescal. The veteran stage actor, who has ...

This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. It's still two weeks until the opening night of the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of King Lear at UCLA Live, but the drama has already begun. Demand ...