In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, the actor, writer, and director ushered in a Golden Era of Shakespeare plays on film the likes of which we haven’t seen since.

You can't make a list like this and not include some of Kenneth Branagh's films. For more than 30 years, the classically trained actor has been bringing Shakespeare's work to the big screen as ...

Acclaimed actor Kenneth Branagh steps into the formidable shoes of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, in a new production at The Shed NYC. Read the reviews for this new production of one of ...

There’s arguably no living actor more associated with Shakespeare than Branagh. He’s played countless Shakespeare roles and directed multiple film adaptations, including Hamlet, Henry V ...

"Cinderella" director Kenneth Branagh discusses the connection between the Disney classic and the works of William Shakespeare on the WSJ Cafe. Photo: Walt Disney Pictures ...

Kenneth Branagh plays the title role in a new production of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, set in the barbarous landscape of Ancient Britain. Featuring a cast of rising stars from the Royal ...

Dr Nick Walton from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust talks ... This is a production from 1992 directed by Adrian Noble and it's Kenneth Branagh taking the role of Hamlet. This was the fourth ...

Two icons of British film and theatre have been given the Freedom of Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare. Dame Judi Dench and Sir Kenneth Branagh also unveiled a newly ...

Visitors to the thrilling, trimmed-down Kenneth Branagh Theatre ... was clearly digging the radical edit. Branagh, with advice from various U.K. Shakespeare experts, pruned the play to this ...

The Shed's artistic director, Alex Poots, on how he brought starry theater events with Branagh, Stephen Sondheim and Ralph Fiennes to New York.

Hamlet (Sir Kenneth Branagh), son of the King of Denmark (Brian Blessed), is summoned home for his father's funeral and his mother Gertrude's (Julie Christie's) wedding to his uncle Claudius (Sir ...