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.

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, ...

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 ...

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.