A Room in the Castle, by Lauren M. Gunderson, premiering at the Folger Theatre, is a fresh look at a story we thought we knew ...

The girl-power premise behind Lauren Gunderson’s A Room in the Castle has good stuff, but is unevenly executed.

Open: Folger Shakespeare Library [ART Box A552] Hamlet / Will. M. Anderso... [ART Box A552] Hamlet / Will. M. Anderson / "No. Up, sword; and know thou a more hor ...

By then, of course, Norris and Twyford knew each other’s tricks: They’d first worked opposite each other five years earlier, in a curious Folger “Hamlet” that had them sharing the title ...

Enter “A Room in the Castle,” currently playing at Folger Theatre in Capitol Hill, which centers the women barely acknowledged in The Bard’s original “Hamlet” and relegates the titular character to an ...

Now premiering at Folger Theatre, A Room in the Castle focuses on the women: “The most brazen part of this whole play is I actually don’t give a shit about Hamlet.” Last year, Gunderson ...

What is it about William Shakespeare that makes people so eager to mess about with him? Never content merely to reduce, ...

Opening next month at the Folger Theatre is Lauren M. Gunderson’s “A Room in the Castle,” which reimagines “Hamlet” from the viewpoints of Ophelia and Gertrude, plus a newly conceived ...