The Donmar Warehouse's year-long residency at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End concludes with perhaps the most eagerly awaited production of the season: Jude Law's return to the British stage for the first time in seven years in the title role of
Hamlet, under the direction of Michael Grandage.
For those who worried that the actor has lost his stage chops during his period as a movie star, fear not: Law proves to be a charismatic Hamlet, both brooding and playful.

It's a testament to both Law and Grandage that when Hamlet delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy -- standing barefoot in a somewhat superfluous snow storm -- it feels neither pat nor contrived, but truly magical and s[...]