Los Angeles Times by Annlee Ellingson

A focused, if at times melodramatic, take on the play's beating heart.

Variety by Joe Leydon

A modestly inventive but curiously bloodless version of the Bard’s timeless tragedy.

The New York Times by Nicolas Rapold

While Mr. Ramsay accomplishes some kind of a trick in streamlining the play, his trimming of corners feels more like a taking away of the center.

Village Voice by Chris Packham

Peter Wingfield delivers an engagingly oily Claudius, and Lara Gilchrist's Ophelia is radiant. But Ramsay's Hamlet's madness never really overcomes the character's traditional emo temperament.

The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck

Ultimately, there’s little to distinguish the proceedings other than their brevity. By the time the piece reaches its familiar death-strewn conclusion, with guns taking the place of swords, it has come to seem like little more than an ill-conceived exercise.

New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier

This Canadian Hamlet, completed years ago, is as airless as a tomb.