The star of “Sherlock” takes on Hamlet at the Barbican

A profile of the woman making history at the Royal Court theatre in London

In a role he was born to play

Rufus Norris’s first production for the National Theatre in London is a good omen

An Australian group perform gravity-defying acrobatics at Edinburgh Fringe

Over lunch with Simon Lovell, a fascinating former card shark, Allison Schrager learns all sorts of things about how swindlers operate