Revenge on Speed: 'Hamlet'

NOW IN ITS 30th season, Massachusetts' Shakespeare & Company stages its first national tour of "Hamlet," in which Jason Asprey and company founder Tina Packer (Asprey's mother) portray the willies-including son-and-mother dynamic in this bloody tragedy of betrayal and ambition. Fortunately, the play will be pared down from its usual four hours.

» George Mason University Center for the Arts, Concert Hall,4400 University Drive, Fairfax; Oct. 4, 8 p.m.; $18-$34;703-993-2787

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