The Sherman Players will hold another set of open auditions for Theresa Rebeck's dramatic comedy 'Bernhardt/Hamlet' at the ...

Janet McTeer and Brittany Bradford in Bernhardt/Hamlet. Joan Marcus. In 1899, Sarah Bernhardt—paragon of stage glamour, the most idolized French actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries ...

Answering his cellphone, she inserts herself into the lives of his grieving family in “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” Wilmette native Sarah Ruhl’s quirky meditation on communication and human ...

The Theresa Rebeck play, which hit Broadway in 2018, is about legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt’s daring thespian challenge of 1899, taking on the role of Hamlet in middle age, and playing the ...

Collaborators June Richards and Elaine Lang first created “The Divine Sarah” from 1983 to 1985, when they were working at San Rafael’s Dominican College, now Dominican University of California.

Review: Rover Dramawerks’ Bernhardt/Hamlet puts female empowerment in the spotlight. Back in the day, like the late 1800s, Sarah Bernhardt was the Meryl Streep of the time.

Aug. 9—Long before the "Barbie" movie had audiences discussing the struggles of being a woman, Sarah Bernhardt was bringing that topic to center stage in 1899. "Bernhardt/Hamlet," which opens ...

Playwright Edmond Rostand (Perrin Swanson) and actress Sarah Bernhardt (Karin Harmon) share a moment in her dressing room in a scene from "Bernhardt/Hamlet," which opens this weekend at the theater.

Sarah Bernhardt’s name and photograph appeared in the police register of demi-mondaines. ... Hamlet, Lorenzaccio and Pierrot, among others – because, she said, ...

When she returned home, Bernhardt was ever-ready to collaborate with Jewish colleagues, like author Marcel Schwob, who translated Shakespeare’s Hamlet for Bernhardt to perform the title part ...