National Theatre Live: "Hamlet" featuring Benedict Cumberbatch

Lenfest Outreach & Engagment Series: Stackhouse Theater

National Theatre Live: "Hamlet" featuring Benedict Cumberbatch
Written by William Shakespeare

Directed by Lyndsey Turner and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions.

Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Stackhouse Theater • W&L Elrod Commons

Rated PG

Running Time: 3 hours 20 min, with a 20 m inute interval

STROBE LIGHTING USED.

Filmed Live from the Barbican.

Tickets are required. General Public: $20 ; W&L Student/Student $8 Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing. Tickets are available at the Lenfest box office, on-line (see below) and at the door the night of the screening.

Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC's Sherlock, The Imitation Game) takes on the title role of Shakespeare's great tragedy. Now seen by over 900,000 people worldwide, the original 2015 broadcast returns to international cinemas to mark National Theatre Live's 10th birthday.

As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father's death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state. 

Sponsored in part by the Class of '64 Performing Arts Fund

Ticket Information

Showtimes: September 9, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.

Where: Stackhouse Theater

Tickets are required. General Public: $20 ; W&L Student/Student $8