Benedict Cumberbatch s a vocal campaigner for the Syrian refugee crisis, and during his current run as the lead in Hamlet, he's been doing a nightly collection for Save the Children to try and help the children suffering as they flee their war-torn home. However, after Tuesday night's performance, Cumberbatch showed that there are some problems that are so big and so deserving of attention that even a typically unflappable British actor has permission to lose his cool.

Sure, most of us might not be able to jet off to the UK to see Benedict Cumberbatch play Hamlet live and in-person at the National Theater, but we'll soon be able to see that production in movie theaters. Check out the trailer for the experience after the jump!

We spoke to Michael Cho at Boston Comic Con about his latest graphic novel, Shoplifter, his thoughts on writing well-rounded characters, and his belief in prioritizing constructive critique from his peers rather than trying to please everybody.

Benedict Cumberbatch called out his own overzealous fans last Saturday night following his performance as the lead in Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre in London. Due to technical difficulties, the performance had a few stops and starts. In a short speech at the stage door after the performance, Cumberbatch pointed out that overcoming these small difficulties had become even more difficult due to his fans' use of smartphones to record the show.

If you've thought to yourself, "Hmm, I need more massacres and more humor in my life," you should probably speak to a doctor. Or maybe give Ryan North's Hamlet-based choose-your-own-adventure game, To Be or Not to Be a spin. Either way. Talk to someone about that.

At GDC back in March, The Mary Sue had a chance encounter with Elsinore's Connor Fallon and Val Reznitskaya at one of the myriad impromptu game lounges set up in San Francisco's Moscone Center. We recently had a chance to chat with Fallon and Elsinore's team lead and writer, Katie Chironis about their now fully funded Kickstarter campaign for Elsinore.

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens isn't the only movie coming out in 2015. (Though it might as well be, in my heart of hearts. Moses is going to a galaxy far far away! *sob*) These 10 offerings from female directors are hitting theaters as well, and you should keep 'em on your radar. There will be a quiz later.

As the saying goes, "If you put 100 monkeys with typewriters in a room long enough, eventually you'll get Hamlet." But will you though? What are the actual odds of a monkey randomly replicating Hamlet. Let's use reason and my C+ in college statistics to figure this out.

Author Mark Forsyth was writing his latest book in the British Library when he needed to cite a line from Hamlet. Too bad the British Library decided he wasn't allowed to do that because the play is too violent! Kids could get the wrong idea about poisoning their brothers or uncles, you see.

As with the coming of Fortinbras, Denmark is once again facing threat of foreign invasion. Except this time around it's not a fictional Norwegian prince so much as a species of fish related to the piranha and that likes to go after peoples' testicles. Yikes. I think we can all agree that fratricide and incest would be way more preferable.

Austrian police raided a man's home to find a personal museum consisting of 56 skulls and dozens of other bones. He was charged for raiding a church cemetery, but I'm sure he has a good explanation for this. Maybe he was trying to put on 56 technically-accurate performances of Hamlet?

Mark Ruffalo is a fantastic actor -- most recently in Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right -- but that doesn't make his usurpation of Edward Norton's Hulk role for the upcoming Joss Whedon-directed adaptation of The Avengers any less unfortunate. In an interview with the NY Post, Ruffalo said, "We feel like it's our generation's Hamlet, and we're all going to get a crack it." As for smoothing any patches with his friend Norton, he noted, "We're copacetic; we're cool." Looks like Ruffalo is already taking Marvel's Shakespearean pedigree seriously. David Mamet provides an excellent definition and etymology of "copacetic" here. [NYP; pic via adherents]