The production was considered a commercial success, in part due to the celebrity nature of Richard Burton and his recent marriage to Elizabeth Taylor during the show's out-of-town Toronto tryout.

A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York. It was deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but performed in front of a live audience.

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 ...

Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, ...