Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Actor Sir Ian McKellen has revealed he has taken on the role of Hamlet three times in his career as he discussed how unexpected it ...

Ian McKellen can speed through Richard III — no problem. He's also played King Lear and the Danish prince. But Chloe Zhao's Hamnet, which imagines the creative origins of William Shakespeare's Hamlet?

Hamnet may be about to win big at the Oscars, but Sir Ian McKellen won’t be voting for Chloe Zhao’s weepie to win Best Picture. The British actor, who became a member of the Academy in 1999 after ...

Chloé Zhao’s Shakespeare drama is winning over critics and Academy voters, but one towering authority on the Bard remains ...

“Hamlet” is less a play than a universe, a place to get lost in the glory of language and story. It’s a meditation on loss, but also power, vengeance (and its limits), betrayal, family, suicide, grief ...

With a glut of roles from Hamlet to Gandalf behind him, 84-year-old Ian McKellen has absolutely nothing left to prove. He’s clearly on stage for the pure joy of it, and that sense of delight shines ...