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Fiction film comedy. Wiggins takes Mabel to the theatre, where they snub Freddy. Mabel flirts with the actor playing Hamlet and she joins him for a soda at the drug store. Wiggins and the actor are both...
In this comedy sketch by actor and comedy writer Ed Weeks, theatre critic Solomon Howard reviews two Shakespearean productions: Hamlet at the National Theatre, London and The Tempest at the Putney Brothel....
Audio podcast. Drew Lichtenberg (Audience Enrichment Manager) and Hannah Hessel Ratner (Literary Manager) from the Shakespeare Theatre Company are joined by actor Ted van Griethuysen in a conversation about...
Leaving his wife and children behind in Stratford, William Shakespeare goes to London to promote the Henry VI trilogy and make his fortune.
Comedy. The story of a theatrical company and what happens in a staging of Macbeth. One night the actor playing Macbeth, interrupts the performance after he hears a cell phone ringing in the audience. From...
Fiction film comedy concerning a ham actor (Humphrey) who, with his company, leaves town without paying his hotel bill. Pursued by a policemen he takes refuge in a private house where he stumbles upon some...
US comedy variety show hosted by Steve Allen. This episode features actor Andy Griffith, as a yogi,explaining Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a comedy monologue. The edition is renowned for the appearance of Elvis...
BBC television comedy series. Billed as ‘an episode in the life of a laughing stock of television’. Howerd plays an out-of-work, frustrated, small part actor, desperate to secure a Shakespearean role....
A version of Ferenc Molnár’s playlet comedy in which the actor is so taken over by the role of Lear that he speaks in Shakespearean verse.
Late-night music/comedy series. In this episode, in a sketch entitled ‘Improv Hamlet’ and set in the Globe Theatre, Shakespeare (Lovitz)) is told that Richard Burbage has been replaced by another actor...
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