If a director of Hamlet wants to signal to a contemporary audience that "something is rotten in the State," she could hardly find a more efficient shorthand than to evoke the Trump family. Last year on Broadway, Glenda Jackson's King Lear appeared to rule from the faux gilded lobby of Trump Tower. The Public Theater's 2017 Julius Caesar featured a tweeting emperor in a too-long tie. So when, in the current production…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 10:00PM on February 10, 2020