After appearing for more than 380 years in the shadows, one of the few female roles in “Hamlet” will perform in the spotlight tonight and tomorrow at Howard Community College’s Smith Theatre.

Claire McCarthy's new film Ophelia takes the Bard's advice to "hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature," and finds a fresh angle on the story Shakespeare called Hamlet.

Feminist scholarship had attempted to give Ophelia her due in the 1970s, reframing her madness as protest and rebellion. The character did get a backstory in Mary Corden Clarke’s 1852 book ...

It is not betrayal and madness that bewitches this Ophelia but toxic masculinity. Director Claire McCarthy (“The Waiting City”) and adapter Semi Chellas (“Mad Men”) ...

Ophelia’s Jump Productions will present “Second Death of a Mad Wife,” a new play by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos, Oct. 12-Nov. 3 at 2009 Porterfield Way, Suite I, Upland. In the play ...

“Ophelia,” as its name implies, sees “Hamlet” through the eyes of one of Shakespeare’s best-known female characters.In this uneven reimagining, the girl remembered mostly for going mad ...

Ophelia’s Jump has announced the world premiere of SECOND DEATH OF A MAD WIFE, a new play exploring themes of love, betrayal, and redemption.

Of course, the one time Vivien Leigh played someone “normal,” she went insane. Leigh specialized in portraying mad women: Ophelia, Lady Macbeth, and the deranged and damaged Blanche du Bois ...