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The only known footage of the stage production of Macbeth produced by the Negro Theatre Unit of the Federal Theatre project of the WPA and directed by Orson Welles. The play was staged at the New Lafayette...
Feature film version of the play. Widely criticised and a commercial failure, the film was received as an interesting deconstruction or completely unintelligible according to taste. The film makes the...
Television production of the play with Maurice Evans as Hamlet.
This episode of the original Star Trek series not only takes its title from Hamlet (II.ii.606) but also incorporates plot elements from Shakespeare’s play, or rather plays: an ‘old-fashioned’...
A version of the play, made for television, set in the late 19th-century in a post-Civil War setting. The film is based on Scott’s 1996 stage production of Hamlet at Boston’s Huntington Theatre, with...
A feature film version based on the Otto Nicolai opera The Merry Wives of Windsor adapted by Marieluise Steinhauer. Performed by the Berliner Staatskapelle and the choir of the Staatsoper Berlin, conducted...
Shortened version of the play adapted for television. Transmitted live in the Omnibus slot, the production was filmed on a circular set with two cameras that travelled around the perimeter. Reviews note...
Television sitcom. When Lucy learns that Orson Welles is doing a benefit show at Ricky’s club, she desperately wants to act the role of Juliet to Welles’s Romeo. Ricky doesn’t want Lucy to have the job...
Televised version of the play, with Robert Perceval as Caesar and Eric Porter as Brutus. According to its producer, Stuart Burge, the production strives "for a true and lively interpretation of the text, but...
Radio series on the media world. In this edition Steve Hewlett talks about the the discovery by the British Film Institute of 100 hours of TV dramas from the 1960 believed lost lost until found recently by...