BONUS: Long Beach Playhouse's 'Hamlet'

Shakespeare's Shadows

featuring an interview with actor Roberto Williams

Roberto Williams is one of five actors together playing the title character in Long Beach Playhouse’s current production of Hamlet. One actor plays what’s called the core Hamlet, and the others play four parts of Hamlet’s psyche: wisdom, innocence, justice, and vengeance — Roberto plays the latter.

In this bonus episode, Roberto discusses this unique staging of what’s often referred to as Shakespeare’s greatest play. He also shares some details about another adaptation of Hamlet inspired by Deaf culture that he’s developing, and he chats about his popular Instagram and TikTok reels that connect Shakespeare’s characters to modern pop culture.