To Thine Own Self Be True: A Female "Hamlet" Plays At Curtain Call Youth Theatre
BY CARY GINELL The idea of a woman playing the lead in Shakespeare’s Hamlet is not a new one. The first female Hamlet, Elizabeth Powell, performed the role at London’s Drury Lane Theatre in 1796 and by 1820, the first American “Hamlette,” Sarah Bartley, played it at the Park Theatre in New York. Still, the concept […]