Scott Werve is on the verge of earning a master’s degree in theater-directing from UC Irvine, but is convinced the art form he has studied is hopelessly out of touch with people like himself who have ...

Fortinbras is a role in Hamlet, a play that opened Off-Broadway in 2026. William Shakespeare’s Hamlet tells the story of the young prince of Denmark, who discovers that his father has been murdered by ...

Lee Blessing’s “Fortinbras” begins with an expiring Prince (or, by then, King) Hamlet cradled in the arms of his best friend Horatio and waxing lyrical about how the potent poison o’ercrows his spirit ...

Friday night, a talented cast of student actors and crew opened their production of “Fortinbras” at Cabrillo College’s Black Box Theater. Skip Epperson’s influence was evident in a masterful set that ...

That was the inspiration for Lee Blessing’s 1991 play “Fortinbras,” which spins a humorous postscript to “Hamlet.” Not as frequently produced as “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” Tom Stoppard’s ...

When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday through Dec. 15. Where: Westchester Playhouse, 8301 Hindry Ave. Tickets: $18, $16 for seniors, students and the military. By the final curtain of ...

Hamlet is lying in the arms of his faithful servant Horatio, taking his last breaths of life. Bodies are scattered around the castle and finally, Hamlet perishes. Thus, the stage is set for Irvine ...

This year's Shakespeare Summer Nights pairs the Bard's somber "Hamlet" with "Fortinbras," Lee Blessing's spin on the tale of the brooding Danish prince. Alaina Manchester directs this comedy, which ...

Fortinbras is a role in Hamlet, a play that opened New York in 2017. Set in Persia a hundred years ago, on the eve of World War I, Waterwell's Hamlet weaves passages of Farsi translation into the ...

Many of us are familiar with the tragic story of Hamlet, but have you ever wondered what happened to “the state of Denmark” after his folly? Well, on April 26, Irvine High School explained just that ...