H ow do you stage a Shakespeare play in the middle of a global pandemic? British actor Sam Crane wasn't sure, but he knew he was tired of looking at Zoom screens. His determination to find a ...

After months of agonizing work under pandemic restrictions, Sam Crane’s production of “Hamlet” inside “Grand Theft Auto Online” went live on Twitch. “21 people! I’ve definitely ...

Yet when Sam Crane, a.k.a. @Hamlet_thedane, launches into one of the Bard’s monologues, he’s often murdered by a fellow player within minutes. Everyone’s a critic.

After months of agonizing work under pandemic restrictions, Sam Crane’s production of “Hamlet” inside “Grand Theft Auto Online” went live on Twitch. “Twenty-one people! I’ve ...

In January 2021, actors Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen were out of work and depressed. The U.K.’s third COVID-19 lockdown had begun, and London theaters were shut again.

Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls' documentary about making virtual art in a pandemic won the Documentary Jury Prize at SXSW 2024. How do you stage a Shakespeare play in the middle of a global pandemic ...

In Grand Theft Hamlet, London-based couple Pinny Grylls, a documentary filmmaker, and Sam Crane, a veteran actor, begin an experiment in creativity they had no roadmap for. In early 2020, Crane ...

When Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen, two out-of-work London actors, happened upon the site while playing the game during a coronavirus pandemic lockdown in 2021, their thespian curiosity took over.

So in 2021, out-of-work actor pals Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen were communicating mostly through their video game avatars in GTA, tooling around Los Santos, GTA's virtual version of Los Angeles.

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning documentary filmmaker Pinny Grylls, and award-winning filmmaker, video artist and actor Sam Crane have signed with Anonymous Content for representation. The duo teamed to ...

Grand Theft Hamlet is now available to watch at home. The documentary, which hit the big screen in December, follows theatre actors Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen as they set out to stage a full ...